List of Puritans

The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church, during the Reformation. The group is also extended to include some early colonial American ministers and important lay-leaders. The majority of people in this list were mainstream Puritans, adhering strictly to the doctrine of Predestination. The more moderate ones, who tended towards Arminianism, have the label "Arminian" behind their names.

A

• Robert Abbot
• Joseph Alleine
• Richard Alleine
• William Ames
• John Arrowsmith
• Simon Ashe

B

3

C

3

D

• Thomas Danforth
• John Darrell
• John Davenport
• Arthur Dent
• John Dod
• Philip Doddridge
• John Downame
• Calybute Downing
• Thomas Dudley
• John Dury

E

• Theophilus Eaton
• Jonathan Edwards, American heir of the Puritans who is often listed with them
• Stephen Egerrton
• Edward Taylor

F

• Humphrey Fenn
• John Field
• William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
• John Flavel
• John Foxe
• William Fulke

G

• Thomas Gataker
• Anthony Gilby
• George Gillespie
• Bernard Gilpin
• Christopher Goodman
• Thomas Goodwin
• William Gouge
• Richard Greenham
• William Greenhill
• John Greenwood
• William Guthrie

H

• Edward Hake
• Robert Harris
• John Harvard
• Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
• Thomas Hastings (colonist)
• Alexander Henderson
• Matthew Henry
• Philip Henry
• Charles Herle
• Richard Heyrick
• Gasper Hickes
• Francis Higginson
• Arthur Hildersham
• Robert Hill (clergyman)
• Thomas Hooker
• John Howe
• Joshua Hoyle
• Laurence Humphrey
• Anne Hutchinson

I

• Henry Ireton

J

• James Janeway
• Francis Johnson

K

• Solomon Kane

L

• John Lathrop
• Alexander Leighton
• John Ley
• John Lightfoot
• Morgan Llwyd (Arminian)
• Christopher Love

M

• Thomas Manton
• Francis Marbury
• Stephen Marshall
• Walter Marshall (Puritan)
• Cotton Mather
• Increase Mather
• Richard Mather
• John Maynard (MP)
• John Mayo (minister)
• Joseph Mede
• Walter Mildmay
• John Milton
• John More
• Payton Murphy

N

• Matthew Newcomen
• John Norton (Puritan divine)
• Nicholas Noyes
• Philip Nye

O

• John Owen

P

• Herbert Palmer
• Robert Parker
• Thomas Parker
• John Penry
• William Perkins
• Andrew Perne
• William Phelps
• Matthew Poole
• John Preston

R

• John Rainolds
• Mary Rowlandson
• Edward Reynolds
• Edmund Rice
• Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
• John Robinson
• John Rogers
• Rev. John Russell, Jr of Hadley, Mass.
• Samuel Rutherford

S

• Thomas Sampson
• Henry Scudder
• Lazarus Seaman
• Obadiah Sedgwick
• Jeremiah Shepard
• Thomas Shepard
• Richard Sibbes
• Sidrach Simpson
• Peter Smart
• William Spurstowe
• Edmund Staunton
• Peter Sterry
• Solomon Stoddard

T

• Thomas Taylor (priest, 1576–1633)
• James Temple
• Robert Titus
• Walter Travers
• Thomas Tregosse
• William Twisse

U

• John Udal
• Nicholas Upsall

V

• Richard Vines
• Thomas Vincent

W

3

Y

• Patrick Young

Sources

• Lives of the Puritans by Benjamin Brook and Daniel Neal's History of the Puritans
• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640 (multi-vol series), Boston: New Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
• Beeke, Joel, and Randall Pederson, Meet the Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints, (Reformation Heritage Books, 2006) ISBN 978-1-60178-000-3
• Cross, Claire, The Puritan Earl, The Life of Henry Hastings, Third Earl of Huntingdon, 1536-1595, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1966.
• Fischer, David Hackett, Albion's Seed, Four British Folkways in America, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot, Builders of the Bay Colony, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1930 (1981 reprint).
• Powell, Sumner Chilton, Puritan Village, The Formation of a New England Town, Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1963.
• Stavely, Keith W.F., Puritan Legacies, Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 1630-1890, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.