Person:John Cotton (8)

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Rev. John Cotton
b.8 May 1658 Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
d.15 Mar 1710 Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 25 Jun 1654
  1. _____ Cotton1655 -
  2. Dorothy Cotton1656 -
  3. Rev. John Cotton1658 - 1710
  4. Sarah Cotton1659/60 - 1660
  5. Anne Cotton1661 -
  6. Sarah Cotton1663 -
  7. Elizabeth Cotton1665 - 1698
  8. Mercy Cotton1666 - 1715
  9. _____ Cotton1667 -
  10. Abiah Cotton1669 - 1669
  11. Mary Cotton1670 - 1729
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Rev. John Cotton1658 - 1710
  • W.  Anne Lake1663 - 1737
m. 17 Aug 1686
  1. Mary Cotton1689 - 1731
  2. Dorothy Cotton1693 - 1748
  3. Thomas Cotton1695 - 1770
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Rev. John Cotton
Gender Male
Birth[1][3][4] 8 May 1658 Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
Degree[1] 1678 M.A., Harvard College.
Marriage 17 Aug 1686 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States to Anne Lake
Death[4] 15 Mar 1710 Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
Reference Number? Q63586671?
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Cotton, in Sibley, John Langdon. Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Cambridge, Mass.: C.W. Sever, 1873- 1885)
    3:2-5.

    "John Cotton. Born 1658, died 1710, aged 51.

    Rev. John Cotton, M. A., of Hampton, New Hampshire, Fellow and Librarian, eldest son of the Reverend Seaborn Cotton, of Hampton, H. U. 1651, by Dorothy, eldest daughter of Governor Simon and Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, was born 8 May, 1658. …

    August 31, 1679, with his classmate and cousin, Cotton Mather, he was admitted to the First Church in Boston, then under the care of Increase Mather.

    August 9, 1681, he was unanimously chosen Fellow of the College.

    November 7, 1681, he 'was unanimously chosen Library Keeper,' and probably continued in the office till 1690.

    March 27, 1682, it was ordered that what was 'due from the Revd mr Seaborn Cotton on account of detrimts or halfe tuition for his son mr John Cotton shall be remitted.' …

    His father died 19 April, 1686. November 28, 1687, a committee of Hampton was chosen to treat with him in reference to settlement. He consented to preach. In the course of a few years he declined several invitations to be ordained there. During parts of the years 1690 and 1691 he was absent at Boston and vicinity, and John Pike, H. U. 1675, who was driven from Dover on its destruction by the Indians, received an invitation to be settled, but declined. When by Cranfield's persecution Joshua Moodey, H. U. 1653, was driven from Portsmouth, he preached there three months, and was invited to be settled; but he advised the people to recall Moodey, and Moodey resumed the pastorate. Another invitation to Hampton was extended to Cotton, and after much solicitation he accepted it. When he was ordained, 19 November, 1696, the church consisted of ten male and fifteen female members. He was one of the four settled ministers in New Hampshire at the beginning of the eighteenth century. During his ministry two hundred and twenty persons were admitted to full communion, and four hundred and eighty-seven were baptized.

    … He died suddenly of apoplexy, March 27, 1710. An obituary of him, from the Boston News-Letter of April 10, 1710, … is printed in the Genealogical Register, ix. 164. John Rogers, H. U. 1684, preached his funeral sermon. His successor at Hampton was Nathaniel Gookin, H.U. 1703.

    Cotton married, 17 August, 1686, Ann, born 12 October, 1663, daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary (Goodyear) Lake, and had John, born 5 September, 1687, who died 8 September, 1689; Mary, 5 November, 1689, married the Reverend John Whiting, H. U. 1700, of Concord, Massachusetts; Dorothy, 16 July, 1693, married the Reverend Nathaniel Gookin, H. U. 1703, of Hampton; Thomas, 28 October, 1695, settled on a part of his great-grandfather Cotton's farm in Brookline; Anna, 13 November, 1697, died, unmarried, at Boston, 7 August, 1745; Simon, 21 December, 1701, died 2 January, 1710; Samuel, 12 October, 1703, died in infancy, as did Lydia, born 14 January, 1705.

    Cotton's widow became, in 1715, second wife of Increase Mather, H. U. 1656, and died at Brookline, 29 March, 1737."

  2.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).
  3. ↑ Fogg, John S. H. Record of the Rev. Seaborn Cotton, of Hampton, N. H. New England. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 1879)
    33:35.

    "The Third was borne May 8. 1658 between 3 & 4 in ye morning His name is John, on satturday:"

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Sanborn, George Freeman, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire to the End of the Year 1900. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c1992-1998)
    1:91; 2:15.

    "John the Sonn of Mr Seaborn Cotton & of Dority His wife was borne: 8 of ye: 3 mo 1658 [May 8, 1658]"
    "The Reverend Mr John Cotton Pastor of the Church in Hampton Died March 27th 1710."

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