Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Rev. John COTTON | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - JOHN, Plymouth, 15, bapt. 22 Mar. 1640, H. C. 1657, d. after being some yrs. at Wethersfield, where he was excor. of the will of Gov. Wells, m. 7 Nov. 1660, Joanna, d. of Dr. Bray Rossiter, wh. outliv. him, and d. 12 Oct. 1702, aged 60; was preacher at W. and freem. of Conn. 1661; but rem. without sett. back to his nat. town, had unhappiness of being excom. by his father's ch. for three aggrav. offences, May 1664, I presume without public prosecut. and happily long aft. d. of his pious f.; but aft. open confess. was restor. next mo. went soon and preach. at Guilford 1664; ord. at P. 30 June 1669, but when he had serv. near 28 yrs. was dism. (Judge Sewall marks in his Almanac 29 Sept.) 5 Oct. 1697, under very unpleasant circumstances, went to Charleston, S. C. in Nov. 1698, there was min. to his d. of the yellow fever, 18 Sept. foll. A letter to his wid. at Plymouth by his neph. Cotton Mather, of 23 Oct. foll. ment. arr. of news that "the horrible plague of Barbados was brot. into" C. "by an infected vessel," that a. the end of Sept. it had been there little above a fortnight, yet in this little time "had made an incredible destruct." "Many above an hundred were dead," and that his friends wrote "that all the ministers in C. were dead." Whether in this incredible loss, all the ministers were one, or two, beside Cotton, is not told; but in so small a city, I judge the smaller number most worthy of belief. Mather never cultivat. precision or sobriety of narrat. and his word must seldom be tak. as exact truth. No exagger. of the suffer. in the gr. mart of Mediterranean commerce, by the terrible plague of 1720, was attempt. when history told how M. de Belsance stood in his post of duty, and outliv. the peril more than thirty-five yrs. tho. our great ethical poet immortaliz. the deed, without nam. the prelate: Why drew Marseilles' good bishop purer breath, When Nature sickened, and each gale was death? His ch. were John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Rowland, Sarah, again, Maria, a son, Josiah, Samuel, Josiah, again, and Theophilus. [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - John 15 (1) 1539 [ref 37:120] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - COTTON, Rev. John, (s. of Rev. John, of Boston, whom Savage styles "the most distinguished divine of that age," in this country was b. at B., or at Plymouth, 13 or 22 Mch., 1639-40; grad. H.C., 1657; served the Weth. ch. 1660 to June, 1663 (but was not sett. there; was made freeman, 14 Mch., 1660 and m. at Weth., 7 Nov., 1660, Joanna (dau. Dr. Bryan) Rossiter, of Guilford; ret. to Boston 1663, where as Savage says he "had the unhappiness of being excom. by his father's Ch. for three aggravated [immoral] offences, May, 1664, I presume without pub. prosecution; and happily, long after dth. of his pious father, but after an open confess. was restored next month." He then went to Martha's Vineyard, where he acquired the Ind. language; rem. to and preached at Guilford, 1664; was ord. at Plymouth, 1667, where he was dismissed, 5 Oct., 1697, Savage says, "under very unpleasant circumstances;" was then called to Charleston, S.C., where he arrived 7 Dec., 1698, and there labored until his dth. of yellow fever, 17 or 18 Sept., 1699, ae. 59. His vocabulary of Indian words is of considerable value in the study of the Ind. languages of New England. Hinman says that the Rev. John Cotton, had ch. b. at Weth. - but they do not appear on the Weth. Rec., tho' they can be found in Savage acc. to same authority, his wife Hannah (unless this is an error of the pen for Joanna, there must have been a second marr.) d. 12 Nov., 1702, ae. 60. Hinman credits him with the following children (prob. b. at Weth.): John, Elizabeth. [ref 24:250] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - JOHN, b. Boston 15 March 1639/40; bp. there 22 March 1639/40; Harvard 1657; m. Wethersfield 7 November 1660 Joanna Rossiter, daughter of Bray Rossiter [ref 26] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - COTTON, John Rossiter, Joanna 7 November 1660 Wethersfield, Conn. [ref 15] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rev. John Cotton of Plymouth was a bro. of Rev. Seaborn Cotton and uncle of Rev. John Cotton of Hm. [ref 36:117] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - John of John & Sarah Cotton born 15 day 1st month, 1639. (Boston record) [ref 71:7]; John of John Cotton, our Teacher 22 day 1 mo., 1640. (Boston 1st Ch) [ref 71:10] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rev. John Cotton, the son of the distinguished Rev. John Cotton who has been called "the partiarch of New England," and the uncle of the also justly famed Rev. Cotton Mather. The younger John Cotton graduated from Harvard in 1657, and in 1555 he was invited to become minister of the Plymouth Church, a position he held from 1669 to 1697. For his ordination "Elder Thomas Cushman gave the charge, and the aged Mr. John Howland was appointed by the church to join in imposition of hands." Cotton himself writes that when he arrived at Plymouth in 1667, there were forty-seven church members in full communion (not to be confused with the greater number of attendees) and that during the next thirty years 178 new members were admitted to the church. He was a highly respected minister, known for his sermons, and described as "a man of strong prtes and Good Abillities to preach the word of God . . . from whom we have Received many very proffitable truthes." Yet it must have been known by the Plymouth fathers that in 1664 Cotton had been excommunicated from the Boston Church for "immoral conduct," being restored a month later after making penitential acknowledgement. As his son later wrote in a praiseful biography, "And yet what man is there without his failings?" After twenty-eight years of service in Plymouth, Cotton resigned his ministry in 1697, ostensibly over a difference within the church about Isaac Cushman preaching in the area later called Plympton before being designated a ruling elder. However, Judge Sewall in his Diary gives as one of the reasons for Cotton's resignation "his notorious Breaches of the Seventh Comandmt." Sewall also played a role in the resolution of the matter, for when he came to Plymouth on 10 Mar 1697/98, he had a long discourse with Cotton, and told him "a free confession was the best way." After tarrying more than a year at Plymouth, Cotton became mimister at Charleston, South Carolina, where he died in 1699 of yellow fever. [ref 90:191] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Joanna ROSSITER | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - daughter of Dr. Bryan ROSSETER and Elizabeth ALSOP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Joanna, wh. m. at Wethersfield, 7 Nov. 1660, Rev. John Cotton [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
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