Born at Widford, Hertfordshire

Matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge

Serving as usher or assistant master at Thomas Hooker's puritan academy at Little Baddow, near Chelmsford, Essex

3rd of November, Eliot and his twenty-three barrels of books arrived in Boston aboard the Lyon with John Winthrop's wife and children

Pastor of the First Church at Boston

November, 1632 the ‘teacher’ (assistant pastor) under Thomas Weld at the new Roxbury settlement some 2 miles away

Co-authored, with Richard Mather and Thomas Weld, the metrical Bay-Psalm Book—the first book printed in New England

Roxbury Latin School, only the second such academy in English America (after Boston's)

Started learning Massachusett language

Published his first work in Massachusett, a catechism called The Indian Primer

Eliot's ‘Indian Library’ of tracts and huge volumes in Massachusett ultimately included twenty separate titles and thousands of copies, all printed in the colony

Died