Prominent figures in New England Puritanism include Thomas Hooker, John Cotton, and Cotton Mather.

Cotton Mather, FRS ( February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728 ; A. B.

He was the son of Increase Mather, and grandson of both John Cotton and Richard Mather, all also prominent Puritan ministers.

Mather was named after his maternal grandfather, John Cotton.

Cotton Mather wrote more than 450 books and pamphlets, and his ubiquitous literary works made him one of the most influential religious leaders in America.

Cotton Mather was not known for writing in a neutral, unbiased perspective.

" Few puritans more loudly decried the bosom serpent of egotism than did Cotton Mather ; none more clearly exemplified it.

Cotton Mather's relationship with his well-known father, Increase Mather, is thought by some to have been a strained and difficult one.

Increase Mather was a pastor of the Old North Church and led an accomplished life that Cotton was determined to live up to.

Despite the fact that Increase Mather did not support the trials, Cotton Mather documented them ( Hovey 531-2 ).

In 1706 a slave, Onesimus, explained to Cotton Mather how he had been inoculated as a child in Africa.

The only reason Cotton Mather had success in it, he said, was because Mather had used it on children, who are naturally more resilient.

While Cotton Mather was experimenting with the procedure, prominent Puritan pastors Benjamin Colman and William Cooper expressed public and theological support for them.

Although Cotton Mather and Dr. Boylston were able to demonstrate the efficacy of the practice, the debate over inoculation would continue even beyond the epidemic of 1721-22.

:" Mr Cotton Mather was the most active and forward of any Minister in the Country in those matters Goodwin children and Goody Glover, taking home one of the Children, and managing such intrigues with that Child, and after printing such an account of the whole, in his Memorable Provinces in 1689, as conduced much to the kindling of those Flames, that in Sir Williams time Salem Witch Trials threatened the devouring of this Country.

“ Intercession had been made by Cotton Mather for the advancement of William Stoughton, a man of cold affections, proud, self-willed and covetous of distinction .” Apparently Mather saw in Stoughton an ally for church-related matters.

An opinion on the matter was sought from the most esteemed ministers of the area and Cotton Mather took credit for their response when anonymously celebrating himself years later: " drawn up at their desire, by Cotton Mather the younger, as I have been informed.

He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer.

The book strongly influenced Cotton Mather in his Discourse on Witchcraft ( 1689 ) and the Salem witch trials held 1692-3 in Salem, Massachusetts.

Byrnes strongly despised his fellow South Carolina Senator Cotton Ed Smith, who strongly opposed the New Deal.

The Razorbacks challenged for the SWC title each year and went to the Cotton Bowl Classic twice.

Cotton served as a temporary senator until the September 1975 special election, the result of which was not challenged.

Cotton Ed Smith lost the renomination for the Senate in 1944 to Olin D. Johnston, a pro-Roosevelt New Dealer who had previously challenged Smith in 1938, and he died soon afterward, even before his Senate term had expired.

Unable to run for re-election in 1938, Johnston challenged " Cotton Ed " Smith for his seat in the United State Senate.

1922 editorial cartoon by Cyrus Cotton " Cy " Hungerford | Cy Hungerford illustrating the perception that Hays was coming to rescue the movie industry.

In 1721, Cotton Mather conducted the first attempt at recording the speech of slaves in his interviews regarding the practice of small-pox inoculation.

One of the first documented " ideas " of vaccinations was in 1721 when Reverend Cotton Mather introduced inoculation to Boston, Massachusetts during the 1721 smallpox epidemic.

In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

Reverend Thomas Smith and Humfrey Wanley undertook the task of cataloguing the Cotton library, in which the Nowell Codex was held.

It was indeed a superstitious age, but made much more so by their operations, influence, and writings, beginning with Increase Mather's movement at the assembly of Ministers in 1681 and ending with Cotton Mather's dealings with the Goodwin children, and the account thereof which he printed and circulated far and wide.

The last event in Cotton Mather's involvement with witchcraft was his attempt to cure Mercy Short and Margaret Rule.

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This was particularly important because it shows that Cotton Mather had influence in mathematics during the time of Puritan New England.

Cotton processing was tiny: in 1701 only of cotton-wool was imported into England, and by 1730 this had fallen to.

The Cotton Bowl was the longtime home of the annual Cotton Bowl Classic college football bowl game, for which the stadium is named.

He was also joined for some of the storyline by Nick Cotton ( played by John Altman ), who was imprisoned for a different offence.

In the letter to Wanley, Hickes responds to an apparent charge against Smith, made by Wanley, that Smith had failed to mention the Beowulf script when cataloguing Cotton MS. Vitellius A. XV.

" Regarding his view on Spectral evidence, Upham concludes that " Cotton Mather never in any public writing ' denounced the admission ' of it, never advised its absolute exclusion ; but on the contrary recognized it as a ground of ' presumption ' ... once admitted nothing could stand against it.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

In his first series at Fenway Park, Williams batted a double, a home run, and a triple, the first two against Cotton Pippen, who gave Williams his first strikeout as a professional while Williams had been in San Diego.

In 1966 Hayes caught six passes for 195 yards against the New York Giants at the Cotton Bowl.

September 20, Cotton Mather wrote to Stephen Sewall, the clerk of the court: " That I may be the more capable to assist in lifting up a standard against the infernal enemy ..." requesting "... a narrative of the evidence given in at the trials of half a dozen, or if you please, a dozen, of the principal witches that have been condemned.

The Cotton Bowl Classic is a college football bowl game that pits the second-choice team of the Big 12 against the third-or fourth-choice team of the SEC.

On January 1, 1979, Notre Dame returned to the Cotton Bowl, this time against Houston.

Saint Mary's College was once known for its American football team led by Edward " Slip " Madigan, which dominated west coast football, indeed beating USC and Cal during the thirties, and with several wins against eastern powerhouses during the 20s, 30s, and 40s including winning the 1939 Cotton Bowl by crushing favored Texas Tech 21 to 13.

At first, Cotton was against this but Drewett convinced him otherwise.

Dudley also angered the powerful Mather family when he awarded the presidency of Harvard to John Leverett instead of Cotton Mather, and consistently vetoed the election of councilors and speakers of the general court who had acted against him in 1689, further increasing his unpopularity in Massachusetts.

They were pitted against a group of 10 celebrities including EastEnders star Adam Woodyatt, pop music presenter Fearne Cotton, Olympic athlete Jonathan Edwards and former Sunday Times editor and broadcaster Andrew Neil.

Cotton made his England debut against Scotland in 1971, and played for them 31 times.

The next year, the Irish had a 10 – 1 record, a number two ranking, and won against Texas in the 1971 Cotton Bowl Classic, 24 – 11.

He continued boxing and winning during the 60s in fights against Gregorio " Goyo " Peralta, Freddie Mack, Sugar Boy Nando, Guillermo Dutschmann, Henry Hank, Eddie Cotton all of which he won.

Except for the 1988 Cotton Bowl Classic against Texas A & M, the 2008 Hawaii Bowl, and the 2010 Sun Bowl against Miami, names have not been included on Notre Dame's team jerseys since.

His " A Peaceable Plea for Paul's Presbytery in Scotland " ( 1642 ) was followed by his Due Right of Presbyteries ( 1644 ), Divine Right of Church Government and Excommunication " ( 1648 ) and " A Survey of ' A Survey of that Sum of Church Discipline ' penned by Thomas Hooker ( 1655 ), with not only Hooker, but John Cotton and Richard Mather also writing books against Rutherford's view of church government.

In the group game against South Korea, Effenberg had gestured in an inappropriate manner (" gave the finger ") to fans at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas when he got substituted after a subpar performance ; the Germans were then only one goal up, after leading 3 – 0.

Behind Rice and an infusion of new talent, the team went 8-4 and appeared in the Cotton Bowl Classic against Texas A & M.

Tony Levine replaced Sumlin, and got his first collegiate win against Penn State in the Ticketcity Bowl on January 2nd, 2012 at the famous Cotton Bowl.

Dawson contacted Ara Parseghian, then head coach of the University of Notre Dame, and convinced him to use it against Texas in the 1971 Cotton Bowl Classic.

Wellington's despatch after the battle stated: " the cavalry under Lieutenant-General Sir Stapleton Cotton, made a most gallant and successful charge against a body of the enemy's infantry, which they overthrew and cut to pieces.

Twice, she testified against him, even after seeing Bobby Poole, the man who boasted to fellow inmates that he had committed the crimes for which Cotton was convicted.