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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Norton, John 1606-1663 (search)
Norton, John 1606-1663 Clergyman; born in Hertfordshire, England, May 6, 1606; became a Puritan preacher; settled in New Plymouth in 1635; and went to Boston in 1636, while the Hutchinsonian controversy (see Hutchinson, Anne) was running high. to the colonists, who treated their agents who agreed to the requirement with such coldness that it hastened the death of Norton, it is said. The first Latin prose book written in the country was by Norton—an answer to questions relating to church gNorton—an answer to questions relating to church government. He also wrote a treatise against the Quakers, entitled The heart of New England rent by blasphemies of the present generation. Norton encouraged the persecution of the Quakers, who declared that by the immediate power of the Lord he wastitled The heart of New England rent by blasphemies of the present generation. Norton encouraged the persecution of the Quakers, who declared that by the immediate power of the Lord he was smitten and died. He died in Boston, Mass., April 5, 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Puritans, (search)
me to enjoy freedom and to disseminate their views. In that dissemination Puritanism saw a prophecy of subversion of its principles. Alarmed, it became a persecutor in turn. God forbid, said Governor Dudley in his old age, our love for truth should be grown so cold that we should tolerate errors—I die no libertine. To say that men ought to have liberty of conscience is impious ignorance, said Parson Ward, of Ipswich, a leading divine. Religion admits of no eccentric notions, said Parson Norton, another leading divine and persecutor of so-called Quakers in Boston. The early settlers in New England regarded the Indians around them as something less than human. Cotton Mather took a short method of solving the question of their origin. He guessed that the devil decoyed the miserable savages hither in hope that the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his absolute control ever them. And after wars with the Indians had embittered both partie