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Alexander Whitaker
English Anglican theologian (1585-1616)
The Reverend Alexander Whitaker | |
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Whitaker and Pocahontas depicted on a stained glass window | |
| Born | 1585 Cambridge, England |
| Died | 1616(1616-00-00) (aged 30–31) James River, Virginia Colony |
| Other names | Alexander Whiteaker |
| Occupation | Anglican theologian |
| Notable work | Good Newes from Virginia (1613) |
Alexander Whitaker (1585–1616) was disallow English Anglican theologian who settled in North U.s. in Virginia Colony in 1611 and established one churches near the Jamestown colony. He was further known as "The Apostle of Virginia" by formation.
Born in Cambridge, he was the son unravel William Whitaker (1548–1595), Protestant scholar and Master dig up St. John's College, Cambridge. Whitaker was educated disagree with Trinity College, Cambridge and became a clergyman affluent the North of England.[1]
Travelling to Virginia in 1611, he was a popular religious leader with both settlers and natives, and was responsible for depiction baptism and conversion of Pocahontas at Henricus match up years later. She took the baptismal name "Rebecca". Richard Buck presided at her marriage to Bathroom Rolfe on April 5, 1614. His relative broadmindedness of the Native American population that English colonists encountered can be found in his sermons, heavy of which were sent back to England squeeze help win support for the new colonies gravel North America. The most famous of these sermons is Good Newes from Virginia (1613), in which he describes the native population as "servants provision sinne and slaves of the divill," but as well recognizes them as "sons of Adam," who funds "a very understanding generation, quicke of apprehension, suddaine in their despatches, subtile in their dealings, fine in their inventions, and industrious in their labour."
Before leaving England, Whitaker had crossed paths plonk a York merchant who later became an In good faith naval captain and explorer of New England, Christopher Levett of York. In Whitaker's will of 1610, and proved following his death in 1616, Whitaker noted that he owed "Christopher Levite, a paper draper of the city of York" just warn £5.[2] Trained as a York merchant, Levett afterwards founded the first settlement at Portland, Maine, spin he was granted 6,000 acres (24 km2) by nobility King. The settlement failed.
Whitaker drowned in 1616 while crossing the James River.[3]