The correspondence of John Cotton / edited by Sargent Bush, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cotton, John, 1584-1652.

Contributor:

Sargent Bush, Jr., editor.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Series:

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cotton, John, 1584-1652--Correspondence.

Cotton, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 548 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina, [2001]

Summary:

John Cotton (1584-1652) was a key figure in the English Puritan movement in the first half of the seventeenth century, a respected leader among his generation of emigrants from England to New England.This volume collects all known surviving correspondence by and to Cotton.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations and Short Titles

Introduction

John Cotton's World

John Cotton as Letter-Writer

Stages of John Cotton's Epistolary Career

Provenance

Editorial Method

CORRESPONDENCE, 1621-1652

August 30, 1621: To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln

January 31, 1624/5: To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln

March 3, 1625/6: From R[alph] Levett

[March 1626]: To R[alph] Levett

May 31, 1626: To James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh

October 25, 1626: From Herbert Palmer

November 8, 1626: To Herbert Palmer

April 5, [1627?]: From Edward Reyner

March 15, 1627/8: From Charles Chauncy

[Spring 1628?]: To Arthur Hildersham

November 12, 1628: To a ''Beloved Sister'' [MistressWest?]

November 29, 1628: From John Nicolaus Rulice

October 26, 1629: From Timothy Van Vleteren

December 16, 1629: To Timothy Van Vleteren

February 3, 1629/30: To Arthur Hildersham

April 12, 1630: To Hugh Goodyear

October 2, 1630: To Samuel Skelton

October 3, 1630: To Herbert Pelham

November 1, [1630]: From Jeremiah Burroughes

[November 1630]: To Jeremiah Burroughes

1630: To N[athaniel] Rogers

January 1, 1630/1: From John Dinley

December 13, 1631: From Nathaniel Ward

[1628-1631?]: To a Silenced Minister

[Probably 1629-1631]: To [Colonel Sir Edward Harwood]

March 9, 1631/2: To Nathaniel Rogers

June 4, 1632: From William Coddington

October 3, 1632: To Sarah Hawkred Story Cotton

[Spring 1633?]: From Thomas Goodwin

[About April 1633]: From Thomas Hooker

May 7, 1633: To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln

December 3, 1634: To a Minister in England

December 16, 1634: John Cotton, Thomas Oliver, and Thomas Leverett to the Elders of the Dorchester Church.

[Late 1634-Early 1635]: To [John Hall]

[Between July 22 and September 1, 1635]: Roger Williams and Samuel Sharpe to the Boston Elders

October 5, 1635: To [Anthony Tuckney]

Early 1636: To Roger Williams

[Between February 1 and June 1, 1636]: From Thomas Shepard

[Between February 1 and June 1, 1636]: To [Thomas Shepard]

[July 5, 1636]: To Peter Bulkeley and John Jones

[After January 1635/6]: To a Minister in England

[After March 1636]: To William Fiennes, Lord Saye and Sele

[December 1636]: From Massachusetts Ministers

[December 1636]: To Massachusetts Ministers

[January 1636/7]: From Massachusetts Ministers

[March 31, 1637]: From Peter Bulkeley

April 1, 1637: From Richard Bernard

[About June 1637]: John Dod and Twelve Other Ministers to New England ''Brethren''

December 19, [1637]: To John Dod

March 27, [1638]: To Samuel Stone

June 4, [1638]: To [Unknown] at Aquidneck

July 1638 From William Fiennes, Lord Saye and Sele

[After March 1638]: To John Davenport

March 21, 1638/9: From Thomas Dudley

[About March 22, 1638/9]: To Thomas Dudley

August 5, 1639: John Reyner and William Brewster to [John Cotton and John Wilson]

October 15, 1639: From John Reyner

October 18, [1639]: To John Reyner

April 18, 1640: To [John Wheelwright]

June 3, 1640: From John Wheelwright

August 12, [1640]: To Francis Hutchinson

August 26, 1640: To [John] Elmeston

[September 9, 1640]: Thomas Lechford to the Elders of the Boston Church

September 9, 1640: [John Cotton and John Wilson] to Thomas Lechford

September [20-26], 1640: To Members of the Boston Church Living at Aquidneck

December 17, 1640: From Peter Bulkeley

January 4, 1640/1: From Peter Bulkeley

January 16, 1640/1: To Peter Bulkeley

February 19, 1640/1: To a ''Dear Sister''

[March-April 1641]: From William Coddington.

August 7, 1641: To Peter Bulkeley

August 27, [1641]: From William Coddington

February 1641/2: From Peter Bulkeley

[February 1641/2]: To [Peter Bulkeley]

March 9, 1641/2: To Stephen Bachiler

Summer 1642: Members of Parliament to John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, and John Davenport

September 26, 1642: From Peter Bulkeley

[After September 26, 1642]: To [Unknown]

November 21, 1642: From Thomas Allen

February 26, 1643/4: Stephen Bachiler to John Winthrop, John Cotton, and John Wilson

Late 1644: To Master R. M.

[About 1638-1644]: To [Robert Harding?]

May 25, 1645: John Tombes to John Wilson, John Cotton, and Other New England Ministers

July 3, 1645: From Robert Jordan

[April 3, 1646]: To Thomas Shepard

March 12, 1646/7: From Benjamin Keayne

[After July 7, 1647]: From [Unknown]

July 1647: From Nathanael Norcross

[July 1647]: To [Nathanael Norcross]

[Late March or April 1648]: To John Winthrop

September 14, 1648: To [Lydia Gaunt]

[1646-1648?]: To [Unknown]

January 8, 1648/9: To a Friend in England

March 26, 1649: Richard Bellingham, John Cotton, John Clark, and John Wilson to John Winthrop, Jr.

April 30, 1649: From Peter Bulkeley

May 1649: To [Peter Bulkeley]

June 4, 1649: From a New England Minister

[After June 4, 1649]: To a New England Minister

[1649]: To Richard Saltonstall, Jr.

[1650]: To the Congregation and Church at Boston, Lincolnshire

[Late January-Early February 1649/50]: From Samuel Whiting

April 4, 1650: From Peter Bulkeley

[After April 4, 1650]: To Peter Bulkeley

April 29, 1650: To [Nathaniell White]

May 6, 1650: From John Davenport

[May 1650]: To John Davenport

July 23, 1650: John Cotton, John Wilson, and Thomas Oliver to [James Fitch] and ''Beloved Brethren'' of the Saybrook Church

September 16, 1650: From Samuel Stone.

June 6, 1651: From John Eliot

[June 1651]: To John Eliot

[Summer 1651]: John Cotton, Richard Mather, Zechariah Symmes, John Wilson, and William Thompson to Ministers in England

July 28, 1651: To Oliver Cromwell

September 15, 1651: From Richard Mather

October 2, 1651: From Oliver Cromwell

October 18, 1651: To Mr. [John] Elmeston

[About 1648-1651]: From S[eaborn] C[otton]

[1651-1652?]: To a Minister

[1651-1652]: To [Edward?] Naylor

[1647-1652]: From a ''Scrupler''

[1647-1652]: To a ''Scrupler''

[1647-1652?]: To [Unknown]

[1649-1652?]: Robert and Mary Burle to ''Ministers of Jesus Christ in N England''

[Late 1651-Early 1652]: Sir Richard Saltonstall to John Cotton and John Wilson

[1652]: John Cotton [and John Wilson(?)] to Sir Richard Saltonstall

October 12, 1652: To John Elmeston

[?1637-1652]: From Samuel Whiting

APPENDIX

[1635]: Questions and Reasons Sent by John Hall to John Cotton

[1636]: ''Certain Proposals made by Lord Say, Lord Brooke, and other Persons of quality, as conditions of their removing to New-England, with the answers thereto''

March 22, 1638/9: John Eliot's Notes on Cotton to Dudley, March 22, 1638/9, with Cotton's Further Clari.cations

1649: Cotton's List of ''Exceptions against some things in the Synod at Cambridge''

October 18, 1651: Enclosure in Cotton to John Elmeston, October 18, 1651

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9798890871817

9781469601151

146960115X

OCLC:

861793491