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Cotton, Josiah
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
a Congregational minister, was a son of Reverend Roland Cotton, of Sandwich, Massachusetts, and great-grandson of Reverend John Cotton, of Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1722; was ordained at Providence, R.I., October 23, 1728; installed at Woburn, July 15, 1747; at Sardown, November 28, 1759, and died May 27, 1780, aged seventy-eight years. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1:301.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Cotton, Josiah'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/cotton-josiah.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.