Daniel Neal

Born in London, he was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, and at the universities of Utrecht and Leiden.

[1] In 1720 Neal published his History of New England, which obtained for its author the honorary degree of MA from Harvard College.

Evans, however, died in 1730, and, making use of his papers for the period before 1640, Neal wrote the whole of the work himself.

[1] This History of the Puritans deals with the time between the Protestant Reformation and 1689; the first volume appearing in 1732, and the fourth and last in 1738.

[1] The History of the Puritans was edited, in five volumes, by Dr Joshua Toulmin (1740–1815), who added a life of Neal in 1797.