Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Phillips, George

PHILLIPS, George, clergyman, b. in Rainham, Norfolk, England, in 1593; d. in Watertown, Mass., 1 July, 1644. He was a student at the University of Cambridge in 1613 and 1617, and settled at Boxted, Essex co., England, but became a non-conformist, and came to New England in June, 1630. He was the first minister of Watertown, Mass., from 30 July, 18630, till his death. He was a learned scholar and an able disputant, and published a work on “Infant Baptism” (1645).