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BOSTON 400

400th Anniversary of Boston USA - Boston England - the Massachusetts Bay Company (MBC) - 17th-century Lincolnshire Migration - Rev. John Cotton

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    • DEDICATION
    • HELPFUL HINTS
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  • BOSTON USA
    • 400TH ANNIVERSARY
    • BOSTON’S FIRST ENGLISH SETTLER
    • BOSTON 1630 – 1645
      • BOSTON 1630
      • BOSTON 1631
      • BOSTON 1632
      • BOSTON 1633
      • BOSTON 1634
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    • GOVERNANCE
    • LANDMARKS & INSTITUTIONS
      • BEACON HILL
      • BOSTON COMMON
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      • FIRST CHURCH
      • GREAT SPRING
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      • LONG WHARF
    • TALKS, WALKS & ANIMATIONS
      • BOOK TALKS
      • BOSTON HISTORY
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      • PURITANISM
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    • TIES TO BOSTON UK
  • BOSTON UK
    • BOSTON’S STORY
    • BOSTON & ENVIRONS
      • BOSTON
      • ALFORD
      • BILLINGBOROUGH
      • CROFT
      • DONINGTON
      • FIRSBY
      • FREISTON
      • HORBLING
      • HORNCASTLE
      • LONG SUTTON
      • SEMPRINGHAM
      • SKIRBECK
      • SPALDING
      • SUTTERTON
      • TATTERSHALL
      • THORPE-BY-WAINFLEET
      • WHAPLODE
    • TOWNSFOLK
      • BARON
      • BELLINGHAM
      • CAMMOCK
      • CODDINGTON
      • CONEY
      • HAWKRED
      • HOUGH
      • MIDDLECOTT
      • PELHAM
      • WHITING
    • GENTRY
      • ARMYNE
      • AYSCOUGH
      • IRBY
      • WRAY
    • NOBLES
      • EXETER
      • LINCOLN
      • LINDSEY
    • GOVERNANCE
      • HIGH STEWARDS
      • MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
      • BOROUGH COUNCIL
      • MAYORS
      • RECORDERS
      • CLERKS
    • LANDMARKS & INSTITUTIONS
      • BLACKFRIARS
      • BOSTON GRAMMAR
      • BOSTON MARKETPLACE
      • BOSTON SLUICE
      • GUILDHALL
      • SHODFRIARS HALL
      • ST. BOTOLPH’S CHURCH
    • THE PILGRIMS & BOSTON
    • TIES TO BOSTON USA
      • USA 1676: Boston Burial
      • 1849 USA: Boston Seals
      • 1857 UK: Cotton Chapel
      • 1879 USA: Tracery Window
      • 1880 USA: St. Botolph’s Club
      • 1907 USA: Cotton Memorial
      • 1913 USA: Boston Common Memorial
      • 1915 USA: Hutchinson Statue
      • 1919 USA: Guildhall Box
      • 1919 USA: Guildhall Railing
      • 1924 USA: Blaxton Plaque
      • 1929-1634 UK: Stump Restoration
      • 1930 UK: Governors Plaque
      • 1930 USA: Boston’s 300th Anniversary
      • 1930 USA: Memorial Tablets
      • 1930 USA: Founders Memorial
      • 1930 USA: Ashburton Gate Arms
      • 1931 UK: Luncheon Honoring American Gift
      • 1938 UK: American Room
      • 1939 UK: Poem of Thanks
      • 1944 UK: St. Botolph’s Stain Glass
      • 2004 UK: Cotton Chapel Chairs
      • 2008 UK: American Friends
      • 2013 UK: Puritan Path
      • 2019 UK: Symposium
  • MASS BAY CO
    • FOUNDING FACTORS
      • POLITICAL UNREST
      • RELIGIOUS STRIFE
      • FAMILY TIES
      • SOCIAL TIES
    • FOUNDING FACTIONS
      • COLONIAL MASTERMINDS
      • DORCHESTER COMPANY REMNANTS
      • MERCHANT INTERLOPERS
      • GODLY ALLIES
      • BOSTON MEN
    • MBC STORY
      • POLITICAL INTRIGUE
      • FORCED LOAN
      • ADVENTURERS & PLANTERS
      • THE WINTHROP FLEET
    • ORIGINAL DOCS
      • 1620 CHARTER OF NEW ENGLAND
      • 1627 WILL OF ISAAC JOHNSON
      • 1629 BOSTON MEN IN RECORDS OF MBC
      • 1629 MASS. BAY COMPANY CHARTER
      • 1629 CAMBRIDGE AGREEMENT
      • 1630 A MODEL OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY
      • 1630 THE HUMBLE REQUEST
      • 1630 THE PLANTERS PLEA
      • 1631 DUDLEY’S LETTER TO LADY BRIDGET
      • 1641 LIBERTIES OF THE MASS BAY COLONY
  • MIGRANTS
    • MIGRANTS 1620-1640
      • BOSTON MIGRATION
      • ALFORD MIGRATION
      • OTHER LINCOLNSHIRE MIGRATION
    • MIGRANTS PROFILES
      • BOSTON MEN
        • MEMBERS OF MBC
          • RICHARD BELLINGHAM
          • SAMUEL BRADSTREET
          • WILLIAM CODDINGTON
          • THOMAS DUDLEY
          • Charles Fiennes
          • ATHERTON HOUGH
          • ISAAC JOHNSON
          • THOMAS LEVERETT
          • ABRAHAM​ MELLOWS
          • HERBERT PELHAM
          • SAMUEL SKELTON
        • OTHER BOSTON MEN
          • JOHN BILLINGTON
          • WILLIAM BLAXTON
          • George Burrell
          • Chappell (siblings)
          • WILLIAM CHEESEBOROUGH
          • JOHN COTTON
          • James Davis
          • Nathaniel Dickinson
          • William Dinely
          • Henry Farwell
          • Gabriel Fish
          • Christopher Helme
          • WILLIAM HIBBINS
          • David Hitchborn
          • Edmund Ingalls
          • Thomas James
          • William Longley
          • John Pelham
          • William Pelham
          • Rigsdale, John
          • William Skepper
          • John Talby
          • James Thomson
          • SAMUEL WHITING
          • Edward Wilcox
          • William Wilson
          • John Wittingham
        • BOSTON MEN’S IMPACT
        • BOSTON MEN IN LITERATURE
          • HAWTHORNE
          • LONGFELLOW
          • SIGOURNEY
          • CARPENTER
      • BOSTON WOMEN
        • ANN BELLINGHAM
        • Elizabeth Bulkeley
        • Martha Bulkeley
        • LADY ARBELLA CLINTON
        • LADY SUSAN CLINTON
        • ANNE DUDLEY
        • Freestone (Sisters)
        • ELIZABETH HAWKRED
        • SARAH HAWKRED
        • Elizabeth Pelham
        • Penelope Pelham
        • Elizabeth St. John
        • Elizabeth Story
      • BOSTON CHILDREN
        • Samuel Bradstreet Jr.
        • John Coney
        • Elizabeth Cotton
        • JOHN COTTON JR.
        • Mariah Cotton
        • SEABORN COTTON
        • Samuel Dudley
        • Elizabeth Eggington
        • JOHN LEVERETT
        • JOHN LEVERETT JR.
        • COTTON MATHER
        • Oliver Mellows
        • Jemina Pelham
        • Katherine Pelham
        • Nathaniel Pelham
        • PENELOPE PELHAM (2)
        • Waldgrave Pelham
      • ALFORD MEN
        • John Cram
        • Godfrey Dearborn
        • Nathaniel Heaton
        • Edward Hutchinson
        • Richard Hutchinson
        • Samuel Hutchinson
        • WILLIAM HUTCHINSON
        • Christopher Marshall
        • Christopher Lawson
        • PHILEMON PORTMORT
        • AUGUSTINE STORRE
        • Wardell Brothers
        • JOHN WHEELWRIGHT
        • Robert Wight
        • Allen Willey
        • Balthazar Willix
      • ALFORD WOMEN
        • SUSANNA BELLINGHAM
        • MARY HUTCHINSON
        • SUSANNA HUTCHINSON
        • ANNE MARBURY
        • Katherine Marbury
      • OTHER LINCOLNSHIRE
        • Thomas Hett
        • Hansard Knollys
        • John Knowles
        • William Luddington
        • Matthew Moulthrop
        • Edward Rishworth
        • Margery Shrove
        • Anthony Somerby
        • Thomas Tenney
        • John Thorndike
        • John Tripp
        • Edward Wigglesworth
      • OTHER MBC MEMBERS
        • John Browne
        • JOHN DAVENPORT
        • EMMANUEL DOWNING
        • Theophilus Eaton
        • JOHN ENDICOTT
        • FRANCIS HIGGINSON
        • JOHN HUMFREY
        • Peter Milburne
        • INCREASE NOWELL
        • HUGH PETER
        • WILLIAM PYNCHON
        • BRAY ROSSITER
        • EDWARD ROSSITER
        • RICHARD SALTONSTALL
        • Samuel Sharpe
        • WILLIAM VASSALL
        • NATHANIEL WARD
        • JOHN WINTHROP
        • JOHN WINTHROP JR.
      • OTHER MISC
        • Ezekiel Cheever
        • MARY DYER
        • JOHN HARVARD
        • William Hathorne
        • THOMAS HOOKER
        • RICHARD MATHER
        • INCREASE MATHER
        • JOHN NORTON
        • NATHANIEL ROGERS
        • THOMAS SHEPARD
        • SAMUEL STONE
        • WILLIAM STOUGHTON
        • HENRY VANE
        • ROGER WILLIAMS
        • JOHN WILSON
  • COTTON
    • ANCESTORS
      • COTTON’S GRANDFATHER
      • COTTON’S FATHER
      • ANCIENT COTTON DNA
      • MODERN COTTON DNA
      • FALSE PARALLEL LINE
    • BIOGRAPHY
      • 1584-1598 Childhood
      • 1598-1612 Cambridge
      • 1612-1618 St. Botolph
      • 1619-1633 St. Botolph
      • 1633-1652 New-England
      • Cotton’s Portrait
    • DESCENDANTS
      • PLYMOUTH 1669-1788
        • JOHN COTTON JR.
        • JOSIAH COTTON
        • MAYFLOWER LINE
        • Atwood-Sturtevant
        • Bacon-Otis-Little
        • Morton-Jackson-Leavitt
        • Warren-Little
        • Winslow-Cotton
      • PLYMOUTH GRAVES
        • AREAS ONE & TWO
        • 1 John Sturtevant
        • 1 Hannah Sturtevant
        • 1 William Crowe
        • 2 Sons of John & Josiah
        • 2 Josiah Cotton
        • 2 Hannah Cotton
        • 2 Hannah Dyre
        • 2 Bethiah Pulsifer
        • 2 Joseph Pulsifer
        • 2 Abiel Pulsifer
        • 2 Ward Cotton
        • 2 John Cotton Jr.
        • AREA THREE
        • 3 Ephraim Little
        • 3 Charles Jackson
        • 3 Lucy Jackson
        • 3 Margaret Holbrook
        • 3 Mary Dyer
        • 3 Martha Cotton
        • 3 Theophilus Cotton
        • 3 Charles/Bethiah Dyer
        • 3 Joanna Cotton
        • 3 Hannah Cotton
        • 3 John Cotton
        • 3 Priscilla Cotton
        • 3 David Barnes Cotton
        • 3 Thomas Smith-Cotton
        • 3 Josiah Cotton
        • 3 Rachel Cotton
        • 3 Lydia Cotton
        • 3 Mary Cotton
        • 3 Rossiter Cotton
        • 3 Rossiter Cotton’s Sons
        • AREAS FOUR – EIGHT
        • 4 Sarah Harlow
        • 5 Thomas Little
        • 6 William Holmes
        • 6 Martha Holmes
        • 6 Mary Graton
        • 6 Ester Holmes
        • 6 Charles A. Graton
        • 7 Lydia Cotton
        • 7 Josiah/Sarah Cotton
        • 7 Temperance Cotton
        • 7 Bethiah Holbrook
        • 7 Lucy/Jeremiah Holbrook
        • 8 Lucy Bartlett
      • REVOLUTIONARY WAR
        • THEOPHILUS COTTON
        • JOHN COTTON
        • SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI
      • OHIO TERRITORY
        • JOHN COTTON SETTLES OHIO TERRITORY
        • JOSHUA T. COTTON, OHIO WAR OF 1812
      • INDIANA TERRITORY
        • JOSHUA T. COTTON INDIANA TERRITORY
        • JOHN COTTON, INDIANA CIVIL WAR
    • WORKS ABOUT COTTON
    • WORKS BY COTTON
      • SELECTED WORKS
      • 1610 WHETHER THE SABBATH BEGIN IN THE EVENING OR THE MORNING
      • 1630 GOD’S PROMISE TO HIS PLANTATION
      • 1632 LETTER TO HIS WIFE, SARAH
      • 1636 LETTER TO LORD SAYE & SELE
      • 1639 NOTES ON “THE JUST PRICE”
      • 1646 SPIRITUAL MILK FOR BABES
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BOSTONS 400 promotes the 400th Anniversary of Boston in 2030 as it profiles 17th-century Bostons- Old & New, details Lincolnshire immigration to New England, sheds light on the pivotal role those from Boston, England played in founding the Massachusetts Bay Company and explores the life of Rev. John Cotton.


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