John Altham
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John Altham(1589 – November 5, 1640), also known asJohn Gravenor,[1]was aBritishJesuitmissionarywho came toNorth Americato preach to theNative Americans.
Life[edit]
He was born inWarwickshire,England,in 1589. In November 1633, he and fellow JesuitAndrew Whiteset sail with GovernorLeonard Calvertand arrived in the Chesapeake Bay area in March 1634. Upon landing, he obtained a hut from its Indian owner, which he fitted up for religious service, and it was afterward known as "the first chapel in Maryland." He performed his missionary work among the Indians aroundKent Islandfrom 1634[2]till his death from yellow fever, in nearbySt. Mary's, Maryland,in 1640.[3]
References[edit]
- ^Shea, John Gilmary(1886).A History of the Catholic Church Within the Limits of the United States: From the First Attempted Colonization to the Present Time.Vol. 1. New York. p. 40.OCLC499428003.Archivedfrom the original on 6 January 2019.Retrieved6 January2019– viaGoogle Books.
{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^Curran, Robert Emmett.Papist Devils: Catholics in British America,CUA Press, 2014, p. 48ISBN9780813225838
- ^Bowden, Henry Warner (1993).Dictionary of American religious biography(2nd ed.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 17.ISBN0-313-27825-3.
- Who Was Who in America, Historical Edition 1607-1896.Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967.
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