Annals of the Boodeys - In New England, Together With Lessons of Law and Life, From John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians #245170

When William the Conqueror, in the year 1066, with his army, in seven hundred ships, then landing on the Shores of England, at Pevency, he had on board an Eliot, — not an apostle, but the remote ancestor of our New England evangelist. It was no other than Sir William De Aliot, a military officer under the great Conqueror, then valiant, and then in high command.