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He was born at Daventry, Northamptonshire, and was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Magdalen Hall, Oxford (Bachelor 1628, Master of Arts 1631).
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New England freemen warned and warmed to be free indeed, having an eye to God in their elections in a sermon preached before the Court of Election at ... pastour of the first church in Boston. (1673)
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- A seasonable proposition of propagating the gospel by Christian colonies in the continent of Guaiana : being some gleanings of a larger discourse drawn, but not published
John Oxenbridge
John Oxenbridge was an English Nonconformist divine, who emigrated to New England.
Education
Emmanuel College.
Career
As tutor of Magdalen Hall he drew up a new code of articles referring to the government of the college. He was, as a consequence, deprived of his office in May 1634, by William Laud. He began to preach, with a similar disregard for constituted authority.
After voyages to the Bermudas he returned to England (1641), and after exercising an itinerant and unattached ministry settled for some months in Great Yarmouth and then at Beverley.
During the Civil War he was lecturer at Saint Mary"s, York, and helped negotiate the surrender of Scarborough Castle. He was minister at Berwick-on-Tweed when in October 1652 he was appointed a fellow of Eton College.
In 1653 he was made a commissioner with responsibility for the Bermudas. At Eton in 1658 he preached the funeral sermon of Francis Rous, the provost.
lieutenant was defaced at the Restoration.
Less than a year after his first wife"s death, Oxenbridge married Frances Woodward, daughter of Hezekiah Woodward, ejected vicar of Bray. In 1660 Oxenbridge was ejected from Eton. He returned to his preaching at Berwick-on-Tweed, but was expelled by the Acting of Uniformity in 1662.
He then spent some time in Surinam and Barbados.
In 1670, he settled at Boston, Massachusetts. Oxenbridge died in 1674 near the end of one of his sermons, and was buried in King"s Chapel Burying Ground in Boston.
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On 25 October 1652 he was appointed a fellow of Eton College, in succession to John Symonds, deceased (Addit. MS. 5848, f. 421; Harwood, Alumni Eton. p. 74).
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New England freemen warned and warmed to be free indeed, having an eye to God in their elections in a sermon preached before the Court of Election at ... pastour of the first church in Boston. (1673)
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A double watch-word, or, The duty of watching and watching to duty, both echoed ... / by one that hath desired to be found faithful in the work of a watchman, John Oxenbridge. (1661)
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- A seasonable proposition of propagating the gospel by Christian colonies in the continent of Guaiana : being some gleanings of a larger discourse drawn, but not published
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New England freemen warned and warmed to be free indeed, having an eye to God in their elections in a sermon preached before the Court of Election at ... pastour of the first church in Boston. (1673)
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December 28, 1674 (aged 66) -
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King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts, United States -
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Christian