Josiah
Cotton
Esq.
Born in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Son of John Cotton Jr
and Joanna (Rossiter) Cotton
Brother of
John Cotton, Elizabeth (Cotton) Alling, Sarah Cotton, Rowland Cotton, Sarah Cotton, Mariah (Cotton) Bradbury, Son Cotton, Josiah Cotton, Samuel Cotton and Theophilus Cotton
Husband of
Hannah (Sturtevant) Cotton
— married
8 Jan 1708 in Massachusetts
Descendants 
Father of
Hannah (Cotton) Dyre,
Mary (Cotton) Cushing,
John Cotton,
Theophilus Cotton,
Lucy (Cotton) Dyer,
Josiah Cotton,
Josiah Cotton and
Edward Cotton
Died
at age 77
in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Profile last modified
| Created 31 May 2009
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Biography
The following information, including the portrait and a detailed biography, is well-sourced on Cottondescendants.com:[1]
"Josiah Cotton, schoolmaster, Indian missionary, and public servant, was born January 8, 1679/80, a son of the Reverend John Cotton (A.B. 1657), and a nephew of Cotton Mather. His mother's maiden name was Jane Rossiter. When Josiah was nine a lady of the congregation found him in one of her trees, yanked him out "with her hand, and then threw him over the fence . . . the child fell flat upon the ground by her pulling him by the leg. . . ."1 In spite of a youth occupied by narrow escapes from drowning in a tub, in a well, and in the ocean, in addition to being run over by a cart and falling out of trees, he found time to learn to read without going to school..."
Birth: 8 Jan 1679 at Plymouth Township, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts
Death: 19 Aug 1756 at Plymouth Township, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts
Burial: Aug 1756 at Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Education: Graduated from Harvard College 16983
Father: Rev. John Cotton Jr. (1639-1699)
Mother: Joanna Rossiter (1642-1702)
Josiah died in 1756 and was buried at Burial Hill, Plymouth. His memorial has links to those of his children.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Cotton Descendants - Josiah Cotton : accessed 11 Feb 2018.
- ↑ Josiah Cotton memorial at Find A Grave.
Acknowledgements
- Sara V Mosher
- WikiTree profile Cotton-307 created through the import of Lent_Vise_2011-05-11aa.ged on May 26, 2011 by Bryan Sypniewski.
- WikiTree profile Cotton-581 created through the import of carey haskell tree edited for wiki tree.ged on Jan 24, 2012 by Carey Haskell.
- WikiTree profile Cotton-485 created through the import of mike_walton_2011.ged on Aug 20, 2011 by Mike Walton.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Josiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Josiah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Josiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Josiah:
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~0.39%
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Kathy (Brown) Lamm
Barnes-17675 and Cotton-2 do not represent the same person because: Barnes-17675 and Cotton-2 are completely two different people with birth dates centuries apart
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Rejected matches › Elizabeth Rhodes (Barnes) Callender (1916-2014)
Josiah is 14 degrees from Robert Beheathland, 12 degrees from Bartholomew Gosnold, 10 degrees from Thomas Graves, 11 degrees from Anne Laydon, 17 degrees from Alice Amoll, 9 degrees from Samuel Mathews, 15 degrees from Christopher Newport, 13 degrees from John Smith, 11 degrees from Nathaniel Tatum, 8 degrees from Temperance West, 13 degrees from Francis Wyatt and 17 degrees from Valerie Penner on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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