Samuel Wilbore
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Samuel Wilbore was one of the founding settlers of Portsmouth in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He emigrated from Essex, England to Boston with his wife and three sons in 1633.
The last will and testament of Samuell Wilbore. 30 April 1656
Portsmouth Compact with Wilbore's signature sixth on the list
Antinomian Controversy
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The Antinomian Controversy, also known as the Free Grace Controversy, was a religious and political conflict in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. It pitted most of the colony's ministers
Samuel Wilbore
…Plantations. He emigrated from Essex, England to Boston with his wife and three sons in 1633. He and his wife both joined the Boston church, but a theological controversy began to cause dissension in the church and community in 1636, and Wilbore aligned himself with John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson, signing a petition…
Anne Hutchinson at trial and John Winthrop
John Cotton was Hutchinson's mentor.
Henry Vane the Younger
John Wheelwright's fast-day sermon fanned the flames of the controversy.