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a Congregational minister, was a son of Reverend Roland Cotton, of Sandwich, Massachusetts, and great-grandson of Reverend John Cotton, of Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1722; was ordained at Providence, R.I., October 23, 1728; installed at Woburn, July 15, 1747; at Sardown, November 28, 1759, and died May 27, 1780, aged seventy-eight years. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1:301.