# Peter Prudden

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'''Peter Prudden''' (1601–1656) was an English [Puritan](/source/Puritan) who assisted in the foundation of [Milford, Connecticut](/source/Milford%2C_Connecticut). After education at the [Merchant Taylors' School](/source/Merchant_Taylors'_School%2C_Northwood), he was a student at [Emmanuel College, Cambridge](/source/Emmanuel_College%2C_Cambridge). He arrived in [Boston, Massachusetts](/source/Boston%2C_Massachusetts) on June 26, 1637 with [John Davenport](/source/John_Davenport_(minister)) and [Theophilus Eaton](/source/Theophilus_Eaton). After Davenport and Eaton formed [New Haven Colony](/source/New_Haven_Colony), Prudden and a small group of settlers purchased a tract of land called Wepawaug from local Native Americans. Prudden was ordained as the first pastor of the Congregationalist church at Milford on April 8, 1640. He is buried in Milford, Connecticut.

He was invited with several of his followers to settle in [Dedham, Massachusetts](/source/Dedham%2C_Massachusetts), but declined the invitation.<ref name=hanson>*{{cite book|last=Hanson|first=Robert Brand |title=Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635-1890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4oslAQAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Dedham Historical Society|pages=35–37}}</ref> They had offers to settle in other places as well, including in [Plymouth Colony](/source/Plymouth_Colony), and were seeking to build a community that was both spiritually and commercially successful.<ref name=hanson/>

== See also ==
*[Connecticut Colony](/source/Connecticut_Colony)

== References ==
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*Lillian E. Prudden, ''[https://archive.org/details/peterpruddenstor00prud Peter Prudden: A Story of His Life at New Haven and Milford, Conn. with the Genealogy of Some of His Descendants]'' (1901)

== External links ==
*[http://himedo.net/TheHopkinThomasProject/FamilyTies/BiographicalData/ps03/ps03_465.htm Biographical entry]

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