I'm pretty sure you know someone named John. They're all over, aren't they, these

jons? We have them in the New Testament, we have them all through church history. In

fact, it was six Johns that wrote the Scott's confession, but I want to talk to you about five Johns, five men named John of the New England colonies.

The first that we come to is John Elliot. He was born in

1604 in old England, died in New England in 1690. He was at Cambridge and he

was there with Thomas Hooker and he came to Boston.

In 1631, he began a ministry in a church at Roxbury,

and he began to turn his attention to the Algonquin Indians.

And of course his name is associated with the First Bible that is published in America and it is the Algonquin Bible, the

translation of the Bible into the Algonquin language. He died at a very old

age for folks in the 17th century at the age of 85 and on his deathbed he's

reported to have said welcome joy. That's the first John. The second John is John Davenport. He was born in 1597, died in 1670. He was the founder of New Haven. He went from Old England to Holland and then eventually he made his way to

Boston and then he made his way to New Haven Connecticut. He had a dream of founding a college just as there was Harvard for

the colony of Massachusetts he had a dream of founding a college for the

colony of Connecticut and that dream would come to fruition but it would be

after his death and that would be Yale founded in 1701. The other John of the

colonies is John Tenet.

He has a famous father William and a famous brother Gilbert,

so this is the Tenet family.

He was born in 1707 and died in 1732.

He was trained in the Shamani at the Log College.

This was his father's college that he set up.

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