Background
Wilson, John was born in 1591 in Windsor, England, circa. Son of William and Isabel (Woodhall) Wilson.
Wilson, John was born in 1591 in Windsor, England, circa. Son of William and Isabel (Woodhall) Wilson.
Bachelor of Arts (fellow), King’s College, Cambridge (England) University, 1608, Master of Arts, 1613. Admitted to Inner Temple, 1610.
Came to American, 1630. Teacher First Church, Boston, 1630, 35-67. Went to England, 1631, 34-35.
One of 1st to work for conversion of Indians in Massachusetts Author: A Song, or, Story, for the Lasting Remembrance of Divers Famous Works (long children's poem), 1626, reissued in Boston as A Song of Deliverance, 1680.
8 anagrams in verse in Thomas Shepard’s The Church-.
Married Elizabeth Mansfield, May 1615, at least 3 children, Elizabeth, Mary, John.