John Stubbs (c.1618–1675) was an itinerant English Quaker minister and author who engaged in a well-known debate with Roger Williams in Rhode Island.
[1] Stubbs had received a liberal education and was fluent in several languages, including Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
[3] Stubbs refused to take an oath of fidelity to Cromwell in 1654 as against his Quaker beliefs, so he left the army that year.
[5] According to George Fox in the 1660s, Stubbs had a wife and four children and was imprisoned by a judge for not swearing an oath according to his Quaker beliefs.
[6] Stubbs debated the Protestant theologian Roger Williams in Rhode Island (New England) in 1672 with several other Quakers.