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Meriel COTTON

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Meriel COTTON was born on 19 Jul 1700 (daughter of Rev. Rowland COTTON and Elizabeth SALTONSTALL).

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: Maria

    Meriel married Matthew ADAMS on 10 Jun 1734 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Rev. Rowland COTTON was born on 27 Dec 1667 in Plymouth, Pymouth County, Massachusetts (son of Rev John COTTON, II and Joannah ROSSITER); died in Mar 1721/2 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

    Rowland married Elizabeth SALTONSTALL on 22 Sep 1692. Elizabeth (daughter of Nathaniel SALTONSTALL and Elizabeth WARD) was born on 17 Sep 1668 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died on 08 Jul 1726 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried on 14 Jul 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Elizabeth SALTONSTALL was born on 17 Sep 1668 in Haverhill, Massachusetts (daughter of Nathaniel SALTONSTALL and Elizabeth WARD); died on 08 Jul 1726 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried on 14 Jul 1726.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Daughter of Nathaniel Saltonstall and Elizabeth Ward

    Notes:

    From NEHGR 1853, Vol. 7, p. 305
    "Boston, Saturday, July 9, 1726. Yesterday morning deceased here, aafter a short illness of a fever, and this evening is decently iterred, Mrs. Elizabeth Cotton, only daughter of the late Hon. Col. Nathaniel Saltonstall, Esq. of Haverhill, and sister to the late Hon. Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq., of Connecticut, Governor." She was born 15 Sept. 1668; m. 1 Rev. Mr. John Denison of Ipswich, who d. Sept. 1689, by whom she had the late Col. John Denison, Esq. of the same town; 2. Rev. Mr. Roland Cotton of Sandwich, who died in March, 1721-2. By him she left ten children, (five of whom were sones,) who followed her to the grave. On the demise of her husand, she moved to Boston, where she resided till her death. "She was known to be a person of very superior wit, knowledge and virtue, from her youth up."

    Children:
    1. John COTTON was born on 15 Jul 1693; died on 17 May 1757.
    2. Joanna COTTON was born between 1693 and 1695.
    3. Elizabeth COTTON was born on 03 Nov 1695; died on 12 Oct 1742.
    4. Sarah COTTON was born on 26 Dec 1696.
    5. Rev Nathaniel COTTON was born on 13 Jun 1697; died in 1729.
    6. Abigail COTTON was born on 09 Jul 1699; died on 17 May 1732 in Scituate, Massachusetts.
    7. 1. Meriel COTTON was born on 19 Jul 1700.
    8. Roland COTTON was born on 13 Nov 1701; died on 16 May 1778.
    9. Josiah COTTON was born in Jun 1703; died on 27 May 1780 in Sandown, New Hampshire.
    10. Ruth COTTON was born on 22 Jul 1710; died in Infancy.
    11. Ward COTTON was born on 08 Sep 1711; died on 30 Nov 1768.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Rev John COTTON, II was born on 15 Mar 1639/40 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; was christened on 22 Mar 1639/40 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts (son of Rev. John COTTON and Sarah HAWKREDD); died on 18 Sep 1699 in Charleston, Berkeley County, South Carolina.

    John married Joannah ROSSITER on 07 Nov 1660 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. Joannah (daughter of Bray/Bryan ROSSITER and Elizabeth ALSOP) was born in Jul 1642 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 12 Oct 1702 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Joannah ROSSITER was born in Jul 1642 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (daughter of Bray/Bryan ROSSITER and Elizabeth ALSOP); died on 12 Oct 1702 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Daughter of Dr. Bryan Rossiter and Elizabeth Alsop

    Children:
    1. John COTTON, III was born on 3 Aug 1661 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died in 1706.
    2. 2. Rev. Rowland COTTON was born on 27 Dec 1667 in Plymouth, Pymouth County, Massachusetts; died in Mar 1721/2 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

  3. 6.  Nathaniel SALTONSTALL was born in 1639 in Ipswich, Massachusetts (son of Maj. Richard SALTONSTALL, Esq. and Muriel GURDON); died on 21 May 1707 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.

    Notes:

    Name:
    Nathaniel Saltonstall, born Ipswich, Massachusetts about 1639, graduate harvard College 1659, freeman 1665, Representative 1666, Town Clerk of haverhill 1669 to 1671, Colonel of Essex Regiment 1679 to 1686, Assistant 1679 to 1686, 1689-1692, Member of Council, Judge Oyer and Terminer Court 1692, refused to serve in witchcraft trials, died 21 May 1707.

    Nathaniel married Elizabeth WARD on 28 Dec 1663 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born on 1 Apr 1647 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 29 Apr 1714 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Elizabeth WARD was born on 1 Apr 1647 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 29 Apr 1714 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Daughter of John Ward and Alice Edmunds

    Children:
    1. 3. Elizabeth SALTONSTALL was born on 17 Sep 1668 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died on 08 Jul 1726 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried on 14 Jul 1726.


  

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