John Wilson (Puritan minister)
John Wilson was a Puritan clergyman in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the minister of the First Church of Boston from its beginnings in Charlestown in 1630 until his death in 1667. He is most noted for being a minister at odds with Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy from 1636 to 1638, and for being an attending minister during the execution of Mary Dyer in 1660.
Wilson arrived in New England with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630.
John Cotton shared the ministry with Wilson at the Boston church.
Governor Henry Vane was furious over Wilson's "sad speech," which cast aspersions on Reverend Cotton.
John Winthrop, after lamenting the attacks on the ministers, was buoyed by the results of the 1637 election
First Church in Boston is a Unitarian Universalist Church founded in 1630 by John Winthrop's original Puritan settlement in Boston, Massachusetts. The current building, located on 66 Marlborough Street in the Back Bay neighborhood, was designed by Paul Rudolph in a modernist style after a fire in 1968. It incorporates part of the earlier gothic revival building designed by William Robert Ware and Henry Van Brunt in 1867. The church has long been associated with Harvard University.
First Church in 2008
1868 steeple tower
Charred rose window frame and facade
Exterior steps forming an amphitheater