Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Volume LXIX

Officers of the Society

Donald R. Friary, President

Daniel R. Coquillette, Vice-President

Celeste Walker, Vice-President

Robert J. Allison, Vice-President

Leslie A. Morris, Recording Secretary

Martha J. McNamara, Corresponding Secretary

William Perkins, Treasurer

Committee of Publications

Pauline R. Maier, Chair

Robert Charles Anderson

Donald R. Friary

Christopher M. Jedrey

Kenneth P. Minkema

Conrad Edick Wright

Editor of Publications

John W. Tyler

The Correspondence of

John Cotton Junior

The Correspondence of

John Cotton Junior

edited by

Sheila McIntyre & Len Travers

Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2009

Distributed by the University Press of Virginia

DEDICATION

Joanna, Carolyn, and Michael: patient spouses.

Copyright © 2009 The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

ISBN 978-0-9794662-2-9

Printed from the Income of the Sarah Louise Edes Fund