Thomas Thorowgood (died c. 1669), B.D. , was a Puritan minister and preacher in King's Lynn , Norfolk , England. He was the first English author to argue in 1650 that American Indians were descended from the Lost Ten Tribes of the biblical ancient Israelites. This theory was an early 16th century Christian theory that was revived in popularity during the beginning of the English colonisation of North America in the 17th century.
13-452: Thorowgood is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Thomas Thorowgood (1595– c. 1669), English Puritan minister and preacher William Thorowgood (died 1877), British typographer and type founder See also [ edit ] Thorogood [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Thorowgood . If an internal link intending to refer to
26-496: A Calvinistic sentiment at a time when Laud and several of his circle were wary of Calvinism. On the outbreak of the First English Civil War he was a royalist , as were other family members. He was sent for as a delinquent for affronting the parliamentary committee of the county of Norfolk. With his father and brother he was embroiled in the attempted delivery of King's Lynn to the royal forces (August 1643);
39-426: A little later he was ranked as colonel in the royal army. He speaks of having undergone an eight years' sequestration , apparently between 1643 and 1651. Writing to Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester , 31 August 1644, he spoke of being reconciled to the sense of the parliament. From 1651 onwards he probably lived undisturbed and in comparative comfort at Ringstead, Norfolk and elsewhere. He died 7 August 1660, and
52-432: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thorowgood&oldid=1013519875 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Thomas Thorowgood In
65-885: The Andes mountain range (in modern-day Colombia ; in the Montezinos document attached to the book the area is called "the Province of Quito"). It was the publication of the account and the book by Dury and Thorowgood in London in 1650 that pushed Menasseh ben Israel to publish his famous Spes Israelis in Latin and in Spanish in Amsterdam later on that same year. The English version of Menasseh's work called "The Hope of Israel", probably also translated from Latin into English by John Dury,
78-630: The English culture/language context, Thorowgood's treatise Ievves in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans are of that race. With the removal of some contrary reasonings, and earnest desires for effectuall endeavours to make them Christian , first published in 1650 under the encouragement of John Dury , appears to be the first suggestion of the "Jewish Indian" theory , which would later prove to have, in different forms, an enduring influence in
91-688: The ancient Israelites through the Christian messianic/millenarian myth of the Lost Ten Tribes. Viewing the Indians in this religious light would make them more acceptable as human beings in general to the population of Puritan settlers, and with this purpose the book was then written and first published in London in 1650. The book was printed again in London in 1660 with a slightly modified title: Jews in America, or Probabilities that those Indians are Judaical, made more probable by some Additionals to
104-471: The former Conjectures. The book was published both times with an introduction by John Dury, and it contained also Dury's translation of Menasseh ben Israel 's report of the story he had heard in Amsterdam in 1644 from the South American traveler Antonio de Montezinos , about the latter's encounters with people who seemed to follow some Israelite religious rites and customs in the northern part of
117-676: The religious and cultural history of both England and the United States. Thorowgood was in contact with the Puritan missionary John Eliot who had emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631. In accordance with the Puritan goal of converting the American Indians to the Christian faith, one of the strategies devised by the Puritan settlers was to view the Indians as being descended from
130-418: The same name. L'Estrange was baptised at Sedgeford , Norfolk, 29 August 1605. He was the second son of Sir Hamon L'Estrange (1583–1654) of Hunstanton Hall , Norfolk and his wife Alice Stubbe , daughter of Richard Stubbe, of Sedgeford, Norfolk. He was admitted to Gray's Inn 12 August 1617, but does not appear to have been called to the bar . His life was mainly devoted to theological study. He maintained
143-532: Was an English writer on history, theology and liturgy , of Calvinist views, loyal both to Charles I and the Church of England . Along with Edward Stephens (d. 1706), he contributed to the seventeenth-century revival of interest in ancient liturgies; with John Cosin and Anthony Sparrow he began the genre of commentary on the Book of Common Prayer . He has been confused at times with his father, son and grandson of
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#1732772849947156-468: Was buried at Pakenham, Suffolk . His works are: He was brother of Sir Nicholas L'Estrange, 1st Baronet and Roger L'Estrange . The father was author of a work often erroneously attributed to his son. He married, first, Dorothy, daughter and coheiress of Edmund Laverick of Upwell , Norfolk; secondly, Judith, daughter of Bagnall of London and had issue five sons and five daughters. His eldest son, Hamon, who died 4 May 1717, married three times, and left
169-535: Was first published in London by Moses Wall in 1652. Thorowgood's book/thesis was refuted still in 1651 by Sir Hamon L'Estrange , in his book entitled Americans no Jews, or improbabilities that the Americans are of that Race . For the staying power of Thorowgood's thesis and its influence on subsequent American historiography, a good example is the late 18th century work of the Indian historian James Adair . Hamon L%27Estrange Hamon L'Estrange (1605–1660)
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