The Correspondence of John Cotton

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 of emigrants from England to New England. 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 — span the decades between 1621 and 1652, a period of great activity and change in the Puritan movement and in English history. Now carefully edi