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... father of American history . " JOHN WINTHROP ( 1588-1649 ) . Came to Massachusetts in 1630 , and was governor for many years . " History of New England " from 1630 to 1649. A journal of every - day happenings . JOHN COTTON ( 1585-1652 ) ...
... father of American history . " JOHN WINTHROP ( 1588-1649 ) . Came to Massachusetts in 1630 , and was governor for many years . " History of New England " from 1630 to 1649. A journal of every - day happenings . JOHN COTTON ( 1585-1652 ) ...
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... fathers , as the Act of the General Court stated , it was ordered in 1647 in all the Puritan colonies , " that every township , after the Lord hath increased 1 Bancroft , History of the United States , Vol . I , p . 459 . them to fifty ...
... fathers , as the Act of the General Court stated , it was ordered in 1647 in all the Puritan colonies , " that every township , after the Lord hath increased 1 Bancroft , History of the United States , Vol . I , p . 459 . them to fifty ...
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... father's death prevented his running away from home and going to sea . He was afterwards bound as an apprentice to Thomas Sendall , a prominent merchant of Lynn ; but his restless disposition could not be satisfied with the unromantic ...
... father's death prevented his running away from home and going to sea . He was afterwards bound as an apprentice to Thomas Sendall , a prominent merchant of Lynn ; but his restless disposition could not be satisfied with the unromantic ...
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... father , And eke a grandson greater than either . " This grandson was of course Cotton Mather , who was born Feb. 12 , 1663 , in Boston . On the side of his mother , who was a daughter of the celebrated pulpit - orator John Cotton , he ...
... father , And eke a grandson greater than either . " This grandson was of course Cotton Mather , who was born Feb. 12 , 1663 , in Boston . On the side of his mother , who was a daughter of the celebrated pulpit - orator John Cotton , he ...
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... father . His preaching was well received a fact about which , perhaps , he was unduly concerned . With his habit of dwelling upon his inward states of mind , he noted in his Diary ( to which we are much indebted for an insight into his ...
... father . His preaching was well received a fact about which , perhaps , he was unduly concerned . With his habit of dwelling upon his inward states of mind , he noted in his Diary ( to which we are much indebted for an insight into his ...
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