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Bergenfield

(Encyclopedia) Bergenfield Bergenfield bûrˈgənfēldˌ [key], borough (2020 pop. 28,321), Bergen co., NE N.J.; inc. 1894…

Davenport, John

(Encyclopedia) Davenport, John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman, one of the founders of New Haven, Conn., b. Coventry, England, educated at Merton and Magdalen colleges, Oxford. Starting as a Church of…

Sewall, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Sewall, SamuelSewall, Samuelsy&oomacr;ˈəl [key], 1652–1730, American colonial jurist, b. England. He was taken as a child to Newbury, Mass., and was graduated from Harvard in 1671…

John BACON, Congress, MA (1738-1820)

BACON John , a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Canterbury, Conn., April 5, 1738; was graduated from Princeton College in 1765; studied theology; had charge of the Old South Church,…