Family
John Eliot's wife was the former Hanna Mumford. They had six children, five girls and one boy, Their Daughter Hannah Eliot married Habbakuk Glover. -Massachusetts town vitals collections. Their son, John Eliot, Jr., was the first pastor of the First Church of Christ in Newton, while his son, Joseph Eliot, was a pastor in Guilford, Connecticut, and was himself father of Jared Eliot, a noted agricultural writer and pastor.
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