• Thomas Cotton (1653–1730) was a dissenting minister of London. Thomas Cotton was born at Penistone, Yorkshire, 1653. His father, William Cotton (1627–1674)...
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  • Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet, of Combermere (c. 1672–1715), English peer Thomas Cotton (dissenting minister) (1653–1730), English minister Thomas A....
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    Thomas Bryant Cotton (born May 13, 1977) is an American politician, attorney, and former Army officer serving as the junior United States senator from...
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    Thomas Bradbury (1677–1759) was an English Dissenting minister. Bradbury was born in Yorkshire, and educated for the congregational ministry at Attercliffe...
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    Thomas Bayes (/beɪz/ BAYZ audio; c. 1701 – 7 April 1761) was an English statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister who is known for formulating...
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    Thomas Hooker (July 5, 1586 – July 7, 1647) was a prominent English colonial leader and Congregational minister, who founded the Connecticut Colony after...
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    (1737–1797), nonconformist minister Thomas Amory (1701–1774), dissenting minister, tutor and poet John Asty (c. 1672–1730), dissenting clergyman Joshua Bayes...
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  • lists of Congregational ministers trained in academies, made available by The Surman Index Online, Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, http://surman...
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    especially those who were unmarried or did not have children. Cotton Mather, a minister of Boston's North Church, was a prolific publisher of pamphlets...
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    Baily (1644–1697) was an English dissenting minister, later in life in New England. Bailey was, according to Cotton Mather, who preached his funeral sermon...
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  • Wiltshire, England. In his work Magnalia, Reverend Cotton Mather extolled Woodbridge as "a minister so able and faithful as to obtain a high esteem among...
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    the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634, following their Puritan minister John Cotton. Cotton became the teacher of the Boston church, working alongside its...
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    Midwest. Thomas Somers and the Cabot Brothers founded the Beverly Cotton Manufactory in 1787, the first cotton mill in America, the largest cotton mill of...
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    sparked the First Great Awakening Thomas Hooker was a Puritan minister and co-founder of the Connecticut Colony. Cotton Mather was a prominent Puritan clergyman...
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    Samuel Wright (nonconformist) (category Dissenting academy tutors)
    Samuel Wright (1683–1746) was an English dissenting minister. Left early an orphan, Wright was brought up in his mother's family, who sent him to boarding...
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    Spilsbury's son John led a dissenting congregation in Kidderminster, and in turn his son Francis Spilsbury became a minister at Salters' Hall in London...
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  • of the Church of England was successfully resisted until 1752. These dissenting churches were the mainstay of the American Revolutionary movement that...
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    Philip Doddridge (category Dissenting academy tutors)
    in law; and in 1719, with Clarke's support, chose instead to enter the Dissenting academy at Kibworth in Leicestershire. Here Doddridge was taught by John...
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    (1729–1778), and Elizabeth Tylston (1735–1801), who came from a prominent dissenting family. Elizabeth's grandfather was John Tylston, the "good doctor of...
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  • (Bliss), iii. 941 sq.; Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, 1702, iv. 136, 143; Calamy, Edmund (1713), An account of the ministers, lecturers, masters...
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    notification requirement along with the rest of the law. Federalism A dissenting opinion in United States v. Rybar, 103 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 1996), arguing...
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    with her cousin Thomas Rogers, a close friend and an immediate neighbour to Richard Price. Richard Price was the "non-conforming minister of eminence" that...
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    meeting at Austin, and the American proposal was accepted with only one dissenting vote. The Mexican proposal was never put to a vote. Following the previous...
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  • Joshua Bayes (category 17th-century English Presbyterian ministers)
    Dr Williams's library, engraved in Wilson's History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches. "Bayes, Joshua" . Dictionary of National Biography. London:...
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    Canterbury Joshua Toulmin (1740–1815), radical dissenting minister John Wesley (1703–1791), Methodist minister and evangelist Wilfrid (633-709/710), Bishop...
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    James Janeway (category Ejected English ministers of 1662)
    Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark: Including the Lives of Their Ministers, from the Rise of...
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  • 1766 – November 11, 1823) was a Unitarian minister and politician. The son of noted Dissenting minister Joshua Toulmin, Toulmin fled his native England...
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    "His approach to justice was Warren Court–style legal realism ... In his dissenting opinions he emphasized individual rights, fundamental fairness, equal...
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    John Wheelwright (category 17th-century New England Puritan ministers)
    the ministers returned to the court the next day. With Cotton dissenting, the other ministers said that they did "walk in" and teach what Wheelwright...
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    basis for "comprehension", a set of circumstances under which some dissenting ministers could return to the Church of England. These schemes for comprehension...
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