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Henry Morton Dexter (1846-1910) was an American clergyman, historian, and editor, born in Manchester, New Hampshire, son of Henry Martyn Dexter. He graduated from Yale University in 1867 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1870, spent three years in travel, was ordained to the Congregational ministry, serving as pastor of the Union Church at Taunton, Massachusetts (1873-78). From 1878 to 1891 he was editor of The Congregationalist. During several visits to England and Holland he made investigations particularly of the history of the Pilgrims and early American colonists, and he prominently promoted the erection of a memorial tablet to John Robinson at Leyden, Holland, in 1891. Besides magazine articles on historical subjects, he is author of:
- The Story of the Pilgrims (1899)
- England and Holland of the Pilgrims (1905)
