Person:John Cotton (7)
Rev. John Cotton
b.4 Dec 1585 Derbyshire, England
d.23 Dec 1652 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Rev. John Cotton1585 - 1652
Spouse and Children
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m. bef 3 Oct 1632
  1. Seaborn Cotton1633 - 1686
  2. Maria Cottonabt 1640 -
  3. John Cotton, Jr.1639/40 - 1699
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Facts and Events
Name Rev. John Cotton
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 4 Dec 1585 Derbyshire, England
Graduation? 1602 Trinity College,Cambridge, Eng.Trinity College,
Marriage bef 3 Oct 1632 to Sarah Hawkredd
Death[2] 23 Dec 1652 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation? minister
Burial[3] King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States


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John Cotton (December 29, 1585 – December 23, 1652) was an English clergyman and colonist. He was a principal figure among the New England Puritan ministers, who also included Thomas Hooker, Increase Mather (who became his son-in-law), John Davenport, and Thomas Shepard and John Norton, who wrote his first biography. Cotton was the grandfather of Cotton Mather, who was named after him.

CCW, pg.62 - son of Roland Cotton,Esq. & Mary Hulburt; Trinity College Cambridge, AB 1602/3; Emmanuel College Cambridge, AM 1613; Fellow 1606, Head lecturer, Emanuel College; Ord Lincoln, Eng.13 Jul 1610; Vicar of S.Betolph's Chch Boston _____ 1612-33; came to NE 1633; Ord. Boston(1st Ch) 10 Oct 1633; sett.Boston 1633-52; Election Sermon 1634; Artillary Election Sermon 1651; his portrait is owned by CT Hist.Soc.


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References
  1. ↑ John Cotton (Puritan), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (Online: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 John Cotton, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

    Origin: Boston, Lincolnshire. Migration 1633. First Residence, Boston.
    Birth, Derby, Derbyshire, 4 Dec 1585, son of Rowland Cotton (Magnalia 1:252; some sources give the year as 1584, as Morison 373)
    Death: Boston 23 Dec 1652 (Eliot 197), noting that no one agrees with the date of 15 Dec 1652 in the Boston vital records.
    Marriage: 1) Elizabeth Horrocks, from ~1612 to about 1630. m2) Sarah ___ Story, widow.

  3. ↑ John Cotton, in Find A Grave.
  4.   Cotton, John, in American National Biography Online.


Griffin (1633)
The Griffin carried men of note including Rev. John Cotton and Rev. Thomas Hooker, whose company founded Hartford, Connecticut.
Sailed: Jul? 1633 from Downs, England
Arrived: 4 Sep 1633 at Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Passengers:
~200 (Full List) 		Rev. John Cotton - Theophilus Cushing - Bartholomew Greene - Gov. John Haynes - Rev. Thomas Hooker - Atherton Hough - Thomas Leverett - Edmund Quincy (servant Thomas Meakins) - Richard Risley - Rev. Samuel Stone - among others
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Other information: Griffin (ship)

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