John Cotton (Puritan) - Descendants

Descendants

Among his many descendants, can be counted the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Attorney General Elliot Richardson, the actor John Lithgow and the clergyman Phillips Brooks.

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