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Cotton, John (1)

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a Congregational minister, was born in Boston, March 13, 1640. He was pastor at Plymouth, Massachusetts, from June 30, 1669, to October 5, 1697; at Martha's Vineyard from 1664 to 1667; and at Charleston, S.C., from 1698 until his death, September 18, 1699. He rendered great assistance to Thomas Mayhew, at Martha's Vineyard; frequently preached to the Indians at Plymouth, and revised and corrected Eliot's Indian Bible, printed at Cambridge in 1685. See Drake, Amer. Biog. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Cotton, John (1)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​c/cotton-john-1.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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