John Oxenbridge

John Oxenbridge (30 January 1608 – 28 December 1674) was an English Nonconformist divine, who emigrated to New England.

He was born at Daventry, Northamptonshire, and was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Magdalen Hall, Oxford (B.A.

[4] After voyages to the Bermudas he returned to England (1641), and after exercising an itinerant and unattached ministry settled for some months in Great Yarmouth and then at Beverley.

[3] During the Civil War he was lecturer at St. Mary's, York, and helped negotiate the surrender of Scarborough Castle.

Andrew Marvell, who was their friend, wrote an epitaph Janae Oxenbrigiae Epitaphium for her tomb at Eton.

[2] He and his wife were admitted members of the First Church in Boston, and shortly afterwards he was unanimously invited to become its pastor,[4] succeeding John Davenport.