Praying town
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Praying towns were settlements established by English colonial governments in New England from 1646 to 1675 in an effort to convert local Native Americans to Christianity.
Hassanamesit historical marker
Eliot Church and a historic plaque on the site of the First Indian meetinghouse in the praying town of Natick, Massachusetts John Eliot and Daniel Takawambait served as pastors there.
Indian Burial Ground in Natick Praying town
John Eliot (missionary)
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John Eliot was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. In 1660 he completed the enormous task of translating the Eliot Indian Bible into the Massachusett Indian language, producing more than two thousand completed copies.
Cuckoos Farm, Little Baddow, Eliot's home around 1629
John Eliot among the Indians
Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God (1663) or the Eliot Indian Bible, the first Bible printed in British North America