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| White, John, English colonizer |
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| 15751648, English colonizer. An Anglican priest of moderate Puritan belief, White wished to establish a colony for Puritans. He helped form (1628) the New England Company, which later became (1629) the Massachusetts Bay Company, but he himself never went to America. | 1 | | See biography by F. Rose-Troup (1930). | 2 |
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