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    John Cotton (4 December 1585 – 23 December 1652) was a clergyman in England and the American colonies, and was considered the preeminent minister and...
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  • Cotto or John Cotton (12th century), author of a treatise on music John Cotton (minister) (1585–1652), American religious leader John Cotton (ornithologist)...
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    and his wife Maria née Cotton. His grandfathers were Richard Mather and John Cotton, both of them prominent Puritan ministers who had played major roles...
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    Lynch Cotton. Bishop Cotton also founded the Bishop Cotton School in Nagpur. The alumni of Bishop Cotton are known as Old Cottonians. The Bishop Cotton School...
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    John Cotton Dana (August 19, 1856, in Woodstock, Vermont – July 21, 1929, in Newark, New Jersey) was an American library and museum director who sought...
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  • Conyers Cotton (1807–1901), British Indian army officer John Cotton (minister) (1585–1652), clergyman, grandfather of Cotton Mather Mary Ann Cotton (1832–1873)...
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    prominent men of New England including John Cotton, minister of the First Church of Boston, Richard Mather minister of the First Church of Dorchester, and...
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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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    John Cotton Smith (February 12, 1765 – December 7, 1845) was an American lawyer, judge and politician from Connecticut. He served as a member of the United...
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  • 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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    1638. It pitted most of the colony's ministers and magistrates against some adherents of Puritan minister John Cotton. The most notable Free Grace advocates...
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    Thomas Cotton KCSI (15 May 1803 – 24 July 1899) was a British army officer and irrigation engineer who worked in the Madras Presidency. Cotton devoted...
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    Vane. Hutchinson began to accuse the local ministers (except for Cotton and her husband's brother-in-law, John Wheelwright) of preaching a covenant of works...
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    John Winston Howard OM AC SSI (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007...
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  • John Mayo (died 1676) was a Puritan minister in pre-revolutionary Boston, Massachusetts. He was the first minister of Old North Church, also known as Second...
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    Increase Mather (category American Congregationalist ministers)
    where he married Maria Cotton. She was his step-sister by virtue of his father's marriage to Sarah Hankredge, widow of John Cotton and mother of Maria....
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    difference between his theology and that of her mentor, John Cotton, who was the other Boston minister. The theologically astute, sharp-minded, and outspoken...
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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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    of his congregation for Boston. While staying in Boston with Reverend John Cotton in March 1638, he sat during the church trial of Anne Hutchinson which...
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    John Williams (10 December 1664 – 12 June 1729)[citation needed] was a New England Puritan minister who was the noted pastor of Deerfield from 1688 to...
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    founded the Cotton library. Sir Robert Cotton was born on 22 January 1571 in Denton, Huntingdonshire, the son and heir of Thomas Cotton (1544–1592) of...
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    choice declined, prior to Rogers accepting the position. Puritan minister and author Cotton Mather, Rogers was "sweet-tempered...genuinely pious and a accomplished...
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    international airport departure terminals. Cotton was Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1975 to 1977. Cotton retired from Parliament in 1978. He was...
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    Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 978-0-8018-2975-8, LCCN 83016269, OCLC 1104810110 Beckert, Sven (2014). Empire of Cotton: A Global History...
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    Frederick Sidney Cotton OBE (17 June 1894 – 13 February 1969) was an Australian inventor, photographer and aviation and photography pioneer, responsible...
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  • Bishop Cotton Boys' School is an all-boys school for boarders and day scholars in Bengaluru, India, founded in the memory of Bishop George Edward Lynch...
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  • American cotton caused an economic disaster referred to as the Lancashire Cotton Famine. Despite the high unemployment, some Manchester cotton workers...
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    Shane William Cotton ONZM (born 3 October 1964) is a New Zealand painter whose work explores biculturalism, colonialism, cultural identity, Māori spirituality...
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    virginity (associated with the Virgin Mary), citing Edward Taylor and John Cotton. One Puritan settlement in western Massachusetts banished a husband because...
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    Richard Mather (category American Congregationalist ministers)
    1669) was a New England Puritan minister in colonial Boston. He was father to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton Mather, both celebrated Boston...
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