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John Endecott was a Puritan leader and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony for 16 years. He was involved in the Pequot War, the banishment of Roger Williams, and the planting of fruit trees and copper mining in the colony.
John Endecott (born c. 1588, probably Devon, Eng.—died March 15, 1665, Boston) was a colonial governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and cofounder of Salem, Mass., under whose leadership the new colony made rapid progress.
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May 23, 2018 · John Endecott was one of the early leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who came to the New World in 1628 as a member of a small group of Puritans. He served as temporary governor, military leader, and commissioner, and was known for his strict moral and spiritual codes, his harsh treatment of dissenters and rebels, and his role in the Pequot War.
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In 1634, John Endecott and Roger Williams agreed on one thing. The first Massachusetts flag had to be changed. Endecott, of Salem, was one of the more radical of the early Puritan settlers of Massachusetts.
A book published in 1847 by Charles Moses Endicott, a descendant of John Endecott, the first governor of the colony of Massachusetts Bay. The book contains a biography of John Endecott and his role in the early history of New England.
John Endecott, (1490-1562), the great-great-grandfather of Governor John Endecott (1588 - 1665), came to Chagford from his father’s home in South Tawton and was living as a tenant with his wife at Throston (Drewston Manor) by 1515 .
Reaching back to1634, he made historical John Endecott a central fictional figure: a man “wrought of iron” wielding a mighty sword against the idolatrous May-Pole and slashing the red cross from the English flag—precisely the needed image.
