Circular letter : Boston, [Mass.], to Josiah Cotton, Plimouth, [Mass.], 1712/13 [i.e. 1713] Feb. 10.

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Circular letter : Boston, [Mass.], to Josiah Cotton, Plimouth, [Mass.], 1712/13 [i.e. 1713] Feb. 10.

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February 10, 1712/13, circular letter from the commissioners of the society, addressed to Josiah Cotton, a Plymouth, Mass., teacher, missionary, and town official, who for nearly forty years (dismissed 1744) received an annual stipend of twenty pounds for his preaching to the Indians.

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