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RICHARD, Dorchester, s. of Thomas, b. 1596, of an ancient fam. as hisgr.s. Cotton in Magn. III. c. 20, assures us, at Lowton, in the parishof Winwick, Lancash. was employ. in teach. a sch. some yrs. bef. goingto the Univ. but at length, on 9 May 1618, was ent. of Brazen Nose Coll.Oxford, yet soon call. to Toxteth, where he had taught the sch. preach.his firs sermon 30 Nov. of the same yr. There most faithful. he serv. 15yrs. and was then suspend. for non-conform. and feeling the true senseof his office, resolved on expatriat. In disguise he emb. at Bristol inthe James, arr. 17 Aug. 1635, aft. peril in the remarka. storm two daysbef. and on 25 Oct. with w. Catharine join. the ch. of Boston. He had m.29 Sept. 1624, that d. of Edmunt Holt, Esquire, of Bury, in Lancash. hadSamuel, b. 13 May 1626, H. C. 1643; Timothy; Nathaniel, 20 Mar. 1630, H.C. 1647, bef. ment.; and Joseph, wh. d. in childhood; aft. com. to N. E.had Eleazer, 13 May 1637, H. C. 1656; and Increase, 21 June 1639, H. C.1656, bef. ment. He was a man of excel. discretion, of less learning, itis prob. than his ambitious s. Increase, and less brilliancy, it isclear, than his eccentr. gr.s. the never dying author of Magnalia, butin true serv. as min. happier than either, and better than both. He wassett. at D. 23 Aug. 1636; his w. d. 1655, and he m. 26 Aug. 1656, Sarah,wid. of his great friend John Cotton, and d. 22 Apr. 1669. A few daysbef. he had met a great indignity, in being refus. adm. with sundryothers, sent by an ecclesiast. council, met at Boston, to attemptconciliat. in the first ch. there, as John Hull, one of the aggriev.mem. relates in his Diary, p. 229 of the Vol. pub. by the Antiq. Soc. ofWorcester. The wid. made her will 3 May 1670, but did not d. for sixyrs. His life, written by Increase, print. 1670, is condensed in theMagn. the author of wh. could never be scrupulous in use of materials;and of course he shows that he had not resort. to the MS. of the journalof his gr.f. Yet the slight extracts from the interesting work, caused adesire for the orig. wh. in Young's Chron. was print. from the autogr.210 yrs. aft. its date.
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