William Ames, a.k.a. Guilielmus Amesius

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Puritan theologian frequently in trouble for his opinions.

Biography

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William Ames (/; Latin: Guilielmus Amesius; 1576 – 14 November 1633[1]) was an English Puritan minister, philosopher, and controversialist. He spent much time in the Netherlands, and is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the Calvinists and the Arminians.

Death

Having caught a cold from a flood which inundated his house, he died in November 1633, at the age of fifty-seven, apparently in needy circumstances.[15]

William left, by a second wife Joan Fletcher, two sons and a daughter, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1637; the sons later returned to England; his daughter Ruth married in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Edmund Angier, and their son Samuel Angier later married in 1680 Hannah Oakes,[16] the daughter of Urian Oakes.[17]

Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Ames, William (1576-1633) < link >

By his first wife Ames had no family; but by his second marriage with the daughter of a gentleman named Sletcher he had a son and a daughter. He appears to have died in necessitous circumstances, for his family received assistance from the town council at Rotterdam, and eventually sailed for New England, taking with them his library, which was hailed as an acquisition of great value by the theological students of the youthful colony.

William arrived in 1637 in America<ref>
Passenger List:
"U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s," database
Place: America; Year: 1637; Page Number: 49
{Ancestry Record|7486|233853} (accessed 23 April 2023)
Source Bibliography: DRAKE, SAMUEL G. Result of Some Researches Among the British Archives for Information Relative to the Founders of New England .... 3rd ed. Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1865. 122p.; Primary Immigrant: Ames, Joane; Arrival Place: America; Source Publication Code: 1674; Annotation: This edition was privately printed in 75 quarto copies for W. Elliot Woodward. Same as the octavo edition of 1860 with an additional section, "The First Settlers of Plymouth," pp. 115-122. Research originally done, 1858-1860, for The New England Historica; Name: William Ames; Arrival Year: 1637;
Household Members (Name) Relationship:
Joane Ames
John Ames Child
Ruth Ames Child
William Ames Child.
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References

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ames
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Puritanism
• https://web.archive.org/web/20081006110323/http://www.apuritansmind...
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/vitals/LBB6-XD4
• http://digitalpuritan.net/william-ames
• Mullinger, James Bass (1885). "Ames, William (1576-1633)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. < link >
• "Ames, William (AMS593W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge < link >

• 1644-1652 : Hoogleraar Godgeleerdheid aan de Universiteit van Franeker
  
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