USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A founder of Exeter, N.H. & one-time minister at Hampton, N.H. this friend of Oliver Cromwell believed in religious freedom of a sort that was not possible until 2 centuries later.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Wheelwright (c. 1592–1679) was a Puritan clergyman in England and America, noted for being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antinomian Controversy, and for subsequently establishing the town of Exeter, New Hampshire.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wheelwright, who was Anne Hutchinson’s brother-in-law, was banished from Massachusetts because of his religious beliefs. He fled to New Hampshire and established Exeter as a simple community with a compact similar to that of the Pilgrims.

Detailed explanation-4: -The New Hampshire Colony was founded in 1638 by Captain John Mason and John Wheelwright and other colonists. Named after the English county of Hampshire where Captain John Mason (who received a grant for the land) was raised. Government: By 1775 New Hampshire was governed as a Royal Colony.

Detailed explanation-5: -He migrated with his family to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he was minister of churches in Quincy and Braintree. Controversy dogged Wheelwright’s career, and in 1637 he was banished from the colony for supporting the doctrine of Anne Hutchinson (c. 1591-1643), a relative of his wife.