John Davenport (1597-1670)

Calder, Isabel, ed. The Letters of John Davenport, Puritan Divine. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937. First pages are biographical. More than a hundred letters written between 1624 and 1669 are included. Excellent for a good understand of early Connecticut and New Haven. Good index.

Dexter, Franklin B.  “Sketch of the Life and Writings of John Davenport.” Papers of the NHCHS 2(1877):205-39

McClure, Alexander W. The Lives of John Wilson, John Norton and John Davenport. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1870.  Pages 251-302 deal with Davenport. Very complimentary; written in the style of the day.

 

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