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Jan Munter, b. 1570, d. about 1620, and his wife, Sara van Tongerloo, b. 1578, d. after 1639, were members of the [[Waterlanders|Waterlander]] congregation at [[Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Amsterdam]]. As owner of the former bakery of the [[East India Company|East India Company]], he placed this building at the disposal of a group of English [[Brownists|Brownists]] in 1608, who under the leadership of [[Smyth, John (ca. 1565-1612)|John Smyth]] had separated from the main body. In 1615 this group, then led by [[Pigott, Thomas (16th/17th century)|Thomas Pigott]]—Smyth had died in 1612—merged with the Mennonite Waterlander congregation. The English, using their own language in the meetings, continued to hold services in the "Jan Munter's bakhuis" until 1639, the year of Pigott's death.
= Bibliography =
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de and William Elliot Griffis. <em>History of the Free churchmen called the Brownists, Pilgrim fathers and Baptists in the Dutch republic, 1581-1701</em>. Ithaca, NY: Andrus &amp; Church, [1922]: 143-146, 166-168.
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