"This volume collects all known surviving correspondence by and to Cotton. These 125 letters - more than 50 of which are here published for the first time - spa

John Cotton (1584-1652) was a key figure in the English Puritan movement in the first half of the seventeenth century, a respected leader among his generation o

During the late seventeenth century, a heterogeneous mixture of Protestant settlers made their way to the South Carolina lowcountry from both the Old World and