Ancestry of
John Cotton

(c1585 - 1652)
Great Migration Immigrant 1633

John Cotton

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Rowland Cotton 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Hurlbut   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Dec 1585 
  • Birth Location:
  • Derby, Derbyshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Dec 1652 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • Some older sources state that John Cotton's had a wife named Anne Lake, daughter of Thomas Lake. There is some evidence that Anne Lake was a widow of a John Cotton when she married Increase Mather as her second husband, but that must have been a different John Cotton.

    Some sources give John Cotton's birth year as 1584.

• Marriages for John Cotton

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Horrocks
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1612

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Hawkredd
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Apr 1632
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Lincolnshire, England

• Sources for John Cotton

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/10/2015).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1854, Vol. 8, p. 321.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1907, Vol. 61, pp. 52-56.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 213, 484-487.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 80.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 88-89.
  • ⁷ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 7th Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2000), 223.
  • ⁸ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestors and Descendants of John Coney of Boston, England and Boston, Massachusetts, Concord: The Rumford Press (1928), 51.
  • ⁹ Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot and James Jackson Putnam, The Hon. Jonathan Jackson and Hannah (Tracy) Jackson: Their Ancestors and Descendants, Unknown: Privately printed (1907), 8.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 192.
  • ¹¹ Sibley, John Langdon, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Volume 1, 1642-1658, Cambridge: Charles William Sever (1873), 496.