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Facts

Born 1604 • England
Died May 21, 1690 (aged 86) • Roxbury • Massachusetts

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Open 1663 Bible printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, showing title page with text in the Massachusett (Wopanaak) language, translated by John Eliot, with visible aged pages and red-edged paper.
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