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Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.

John Eliot

Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.

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About John Eliot

John Eliot may refer to:

John Eliot (1562–1594?), author and translator of the Ortho-epia Gallica
John Eliot (statesman) (1592–1632), English politician
John Eliot (missionary) (c. 1604–1690), English Puritan minister and missionary
John Eliot (died 1685) (1612–1685), English politician
Sir John Eliot, 1st Baronet (1736–1786), Scottish physician
John Eliot (Royal Navy officer) (1742–1769), British naval officer and Governor of West Florida
John Eliot, 1st Earl of St Germans (1761–1823), British politician
John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans (1890–1922), British nobleman and army officer
John Eliot (meteorologist) (1839–1908), meteorologist