JOHN, the apostle of the North American Indians, was born in England in 1604. At Cambridge he distinguished himself in theology and languages; but having quitted the Established church he emigrated to America in 1631, and became pastor of an Independent church at Boston. He was finally established at Roxbury, and from this point he carried on his missionary labours. Before eight years had elapsed upwards of 500 Indians abandoned their savage life and settled peaceably on the lands allotted to them by the provincial government. Eliot also translated the Bible and several religious treatises into the Indian tongue, and wrote a number of English works. In addition to all his other labours, he held the pastoral charge at Roxbury till within two years of his death, which took place in 1690.