Thus, both his letters and those addressed to him often read more like newsletters than personal correspondence, documenting some of the most dramatic events of the late seventeenth century, including the brutal King Philip's War and the eventual overthrow of the hated Dominion of New England.Distributed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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Thus, both his letters and those addressed to him often read more like newsletters than personal correspondence, documenting some of the most dramatic events of the late seventeenth century, including the brutal King Philip's War and the eventual overthrow of the hated Dominion of New England.Distributed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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As New. 0979466229. 656 pp.; 4to; cloth in dust jacket; still in publisher's shrinkwrap. John Cotton Jr was the second son of one of the famous clergymen of New England's founding generation. At the age of 22, already pastor of the church in Wethersfield, he lost his ministry as a result of a sexual scandal. Disgraced and jobless, Cotton moved his family to distant Martha's Vineyard to start anew as a missionary to the Indians.