John Murton
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English Baptist minister
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Murton , also known as John Morton, was a co-founder of the Baptist faith in Great Britain. John Murton had been a furrier by trade in Gainsborough-on-Trent and was a member of the 1607 Gainsborough Congregation that relocated to Amsterdam. Murton had been a close disciple of John Smyth while in Holland and eventually Murton returned to London with Thomas Helwys and his church.
