Person:Hugh Peter (1)

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Rev. Hugh Peter
chr.11 Jun 1598 Fowey, Cornwall, England
d.16 Oct 1660 London, England
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  1. Rev. Hugh Peter1598 - 1660
  2. Thomas Peter
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m. Est 1625
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m. Bef 2 Jan 1639/40
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Name[1] Rev. Hugh Peter
Gender Male
Christening[1] 11 Jun 1598 Fowey, Cornwall, England
Degree[1] 1617/18 B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge
Degree[1] 1622 M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge
Marriage Est 1625 to Elizabeth Cooke
Emigration[1] 1635
Residence[1] 1636 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 2 Mar 1635/36 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Marriage Bef 2 Jan 1639/40 to Deliverance Unknown
Death[1] 16 Oct 1660 London, EnglandExecuted at the Tower of London.
Reference Number? Q5932277?


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Hugh Peter (or Peters) (baptized 29 June 1598 – 16 October 1660) was an English preacher, political advisor and soldier who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War, and became highly influential. He employed a flamboyant preaching style that was considered highly effective in furthering the interests of the Puritan cause.

From a radically Protestant family of Cornwall, England, though of part Dutch origin, Peters emigrated to a Puritan colony in America, where he first rose to prominence. After spending time in Holland, he returned to England and became a close associate and propagandist for Oliver Cromwell. Peters may have been the first to propose the trial and execution of Charles I and was believed to have assisted at the beheading.

Peters unsuccessfully proposed revolutionary changes that would have disestablished the Church of England's role in landholding and strike at the heart of the legal title to property. Disagreeing with the war against Protestant Holland and increasingly excluded after Cromwell's death, Peters's former outspokenness meant he faced reprisal following the Restoration and he was hanged, drawn and quartered as a regicide.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Hugh Peter, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    5:442-45.

    "ORIGIN: Rotterdam.
    MIGRATION: 1635 (in his report of the arrival of the Defence and the Abigail at Boston on 6 October 1635, Governor John Winthrop included in his list of prominent passengers 'Mr. Peter, pastor of the English church in Rotterdam, who, being persecuted by the English ambassarod - and not having had his health these many years, intended to advise with the ministers here about his removal' [WJ 1:202])."
    "RETURN TRIPS: Returned to England permanently in August 1641 [Strenuous Puritan 152-53].
    OCCUPATION: Minister. After the departure of Rev. Roger Williams from Salem during the winter of 1635-6, and after a period of no leadership in the church, Rev. Hugh Peter was ordained minister at salem on 21 December 1636 [Perley 1:287-88; Strenuous Puritan 109].
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: On 8 January 1636/7, 'Hugh Peeters' was the first member admitted to Salem church after it was reorganized in late 1636 (later annotated 'dead') [SChR 6]. On 12 January 1639/40, 'Deliverance Peeter' was admitted to Salem church (later annotated 'excommunicated') [SChR 9].
    FREEMAN: 2 March 1635/6 (as 'Mr. Hugh Peters') [MBCR 1:371].
    EDUCATION: Matriculated at Cambridge in 1613 from Trinity College; B.A. 1617-8; M.A. 1622 [Morison 394-95; Venn 351]."
    "BIRTH:Baptized Fowey, Cornwall, 11 June 1598, son of Thomas Dickwood (later Dickwood alias Peter) [Strenuous Puritan 427-36; Morison 394].
    DEATH: Executed at the Tower of London on 16 October 160, having been convicted as a regicide [Strenuous Puritan 415-19].

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