Eliot (John) is born in Nazing, England.

John Eliot graduates from Cambridge University, arrives in Boston in 1631, and serves as substitute minister at the First Church in Boston, then minister of the First Church in Roxbury in 1632.* He becomes known as the “Apostle to the Indians,” translates a catechism (1654*) and the Bible (1663*) into the local Algonquian dialect. Eliot dies at his home, which is near today’s 2346 Washington Street, on May 21, 1690, and is buried in the Eustis Street Burying Ground. Justin Winsor subsequently calls him, “[A] venerable and Christ-like man. . . [and] Had he been a Roman Catholic he would assuredly have been canonized.”