Whose brother-in-law was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antinomian Controversy?
John Wheelwright John Wheelwright (c.1592–1679), was a Puritan clergyman in England and America, and was most noted for being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antinomian Controversy, and for subsequently establishing the town of Exeter, New Hampshire. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he was raised in a family with substantial means, and received both a B.A. and M.A. at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where he was a noted athlete and where Oliver Cromwell was a college friend. Ordained in 1619, he became the vicar of the church in Bilsby, Lincolnshire, and held this position for ten years until removed for simony.
Daniel Abbott Daniel Abbott (25 April 1682 – 7 November 1760) was a deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The son of Daniel and Margaret (White) Abbott (widow of Thomas D Walling) of Providence in the Rhode Island colony, he was called Daniel Abbott, Jr. when made a freeman of Providence in 1708. He served on the Providence Town Council in 1713, and the same year served as Deputy, which position he held numerous times until the year of his death. In 1720 he was Clerk of the Assembly, and from 1737 to 1738 he was Speaker of the House of Deputies. In 1738 he was elected as Deputy Governor of the colony, and served for two one-year terms, under John Wanton as governor.