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 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.

Cotton Mather strongly challenged the perception that inoculation was against the will of God and argued that the procedure was not outside of Puritan principles.

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.

Her captivity narrative and subsequent escape and revenge upon her captors caught the attention of Cotton Mather, who wrote about her, and she also demanded from the colonial leaders the reward per Indian scalp.

for Leeds ( 1859 – 1874 ), and was knighted in 1880 ; his History of the Cotton Manufacture ( 1835 ) was long a standard authority, he also wrote a biography of his father The life of Edward Baines, late M. P.

He also wrote comedy songs for the Sunday lunchtime BBC radio programme The Billy Cotton Band Show.

Additionally, Chapin wrote the music and lyrics for Cotton Patch Gospel, a musical by Tom Key and Russell Treyz based on Clarence Jordan's book The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John.

Although the film's title card says " Tennessee Williams ' Baby Doll ", and the film is based on Williams ' one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, in his autobiography director Elia Kazan claimed that Williams was only " half-heartedly " involved in writing the screenplay, of which Kazan himself actually wrote the majority.

Of the second generation of New England settlers, Cotton Mather stands out as a theologian and historian, who wrote the history of the colonies with a view to God's activity in their midst and to connecting the Puritan leaders with the great heroes of the Christian faith.

Cotton Mather wrote to one of the judges, John Richards, a member of his congregation, on May 31, 1692, voicing his support of the prosecutions, but cautioning him " do not lay more stress on pure spectral evidence than it will bear ...

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.

Key series for BBC Radio 2, made in collaboration with producer Malcolm Prince include Ain't No Mickey Mouse Business, Disney's Women, David Puttnam's Century of Cinema, Ain't No Mickey Mouse Music, No Place Life Home: A Judy Garland Story, Showman and Starmaker: A Tribute to Bill Cotton and, in Autumn 2010, he compiled and wrote a series of eight documentaries on aspects of The Musical.

" The honest yeomanry of these border States ," he wrote, " whose families live by their hard licks, four-fifths of whom own no negroes and never expect to own any, are to be drafted " to fight for the " purse-proud aristocrats of the Cotton States.

Throughout the early and mid-1930s, Arlen and Koehler wrote shows for the Cotton Club, a popular Harlem night club, as well as for Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.

As children's literature scholar Penni Cotton writes, Hoffmann wrote Struwwelpeter in reaction to the lack of good children's books.

Jazz writer James Haskins, wrote in 1977, " Today, there is a new incarnation of the Cotton Club which sits on the most western end of the 125th Street under the massive Manhattanville viaduct.

With the elder Arlen's help, Van Heusen wrote songs for the Cotton Club revue, including " Harlem Hospitality.

The well-known minister Cotton Mather wrote, in Directions for a Candidate of the Ministry, on the subject:

Cotton Mather wrote of Leverett that he was " one to whom the affections of the freemen were signalised his quick advances through the lesser stages of honor and office, unto the highest in the country ; and one whose courage had been as much recommended by martial actions abroad in his younger years, as his wisdom and justice were now at home in his elder.

Afterward, Phips wrote to Cotton Mather, " is not so much talked of to be governor.

Throughout the early and mid-1930s they wrote for the Cotton Club, a popular Harlem night club, for big band jazz legend Duke Ellington and other top performers, as well as for Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.

Yet in 1586, four years earlier, the Reverend Cotton Mather of Boston wrote: " Thomas Dudley's father was Captain Roger Dudley, -- slain in the wars, when -- his son, and one only daughter were very young ".

" Terence Young WAS James Bond " wrote Robert Cotton.

The water in the river is usually unusually clear, and Charles Cotton wrote in The Compleat Angler that it is:

Hendricks typically wrote lyrics not just to melodies but to entire instrumental solos, a notable example being his take on Ben Webster's tenor saxophone solo on Ellington's original recording of " Cotton Tail ", as featured on the album Lambert, Hendricks and Ross!

A historian of the cathedral, Vere Cotton, wrote in 1964:

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.

Cotton also uses far more pesticides and defoliants than other crops, and application of these chemicals often is mishandled by farmers.

Cotton cultivation became more widespread during the Indus Valley Civilization, which covered a huge swath of the northwestern part of the South Asia, comprising today parts of eastern Pakistan and northwestern India.

In similar fashion, he lost the chance of an engagement at New York City's famous Cotton Club when he held out for more money ; young Duke Ellington took the job and subsequently catapulted to fame.

The Oppidan Houses are named Godolphin House, Jourdelay's, ( both built as such c. 1720 ), Hawtrey House, Durnford House, ( the first two built as such by the Provost and Fellows, 1845, when the school was increasing in numbers and needed more centralised control ), The Hopgarden, South Lawn, Waynflete, Evans ', Keate House, Warre House, Villiers House, Common Lane House, Penn House, Walpole House, Cotton Hall, Wotton House, Holland House, Mustians, Angelo's, Manor House, Farrer House, Baldwin's Bec, The Timbralls, and Westbury.

Cotton duck, which stretches more fully and has an even, mechanical weave, offers a more economical alternative.

He used material from a version of Asser's work which differs in some places from the Cotton manuscript and in some places appears to be more accurate, so it is possible that the copy used was not the Cotton manuscript.

Various transcripts had been made of the Cotton manuscript and a facsimile of the first page of the manuscript had been made and published, giving more direct evidence for the hand of the scribe.

" The area was part of the original Cotton Belt of Mississippi well before the more famous Delta region gained fame and notoriety for major cotton production.

After a two year period as the Oxford High School, it became a private home once more, belonging to Charlotte Cotton, former Provost of Worcester College.

The larger portion of the settlers at that time were living on Cotton Grove Road, and as Jackson was closer to them than either of the others, the city was looked upon as the more suitable site for the seat of justice.

In the framework of the EU-Africa Partnership on Cotton the EU has made available more than € 320 million.

According to Cotton Mather, Comenius was asked by Winthrop to be the President of Harvard University, this being more plausibly John Winthrop the Younger than his father since the junior Winthrop was in England ; but Comenius moved to Sweden instead.

Cotton produced far higher fiber yields per unit of land than hemp, and was thus far more profitable, so it largely replaced hemp.

Later findings that the Fiesta Bowl reimbursed employees more than $ 46, 000 for political contributions could have opened the door for the Cotton Bowl to replace the Fiesta in the BCS bowl rotation ; however, the Fiesta Bowl did not lose its BCS rotation.

A more recent spin-off ( now ended ) was Top of the Pops Saturday hosted originally by Fearne Cotton and Simon Grant and its successor Top of the Pops Reloaded.

Simon Broughton, however, has claimed that Roma music is " no less Hungarian and ... has more in common with peasant music than the folklorists like to admit ", and authors Marian Cotton and Adelaide Bradburn claimed that Hungarian-Roma music was " perhaps ... originally Hungarian in character, but ( the Roma have made so many changes that ) it is difficult to tell what is Hungarian and what is " the authentic music of the Roma.