Collection search - Charles Caleb Cotton and family fonds [textual record]

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Charles Caleb Cotton and family fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1786-1879.

Reference:

R4395-0-8-E, MG24-J47

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

100439

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Charles Caleb Cotton and family fonds
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Date(s):

1786-1879.

Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Extent:

6.8 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Collection consists of correspondence, and a few other family papers, such as the Rev. C.C. Cotton's will, of the Cotton family, 1786-1879. Most of the material relates to the Rev. C.C. Cotton, S.P.G. missionary at Dunham, Quebec, and to his family and descendants. The papers give much information on Cotton's background and motives for immigrating first to the U.S.A. and then to Canada. Contemporary conditions and politics in both countries are described and some account of notable events, such as the War of 1812 and Rebellion of 1837, is given. Transcripts, 333 pages.

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Cotton, Charles Caleb (family)

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Cotton, Charles Caleb (family) : The Rev. Charles Caleb Cotton (1775-1848) was educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford. After a brief curacy in England he immigrated to the U.S.A. where he served as a master at Charleston College, South Carolina, and then in various parishes in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 1798-1804. He moved to Lower Canada, where he was ordained to the priesthood, and served as a pioneer missionary in the Eastern Townships, at St. Amand, 1804-1807, and Dunham, 1808-1848.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid provides a chronological list of the material. MSS1090 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002771.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1978 from Mr. R.H. Cotton of Dunnville, Ont. and his sister, Mrs. E.L. Jenne of East Farnham, Que.

Location of originals note:

Carbon copies of typescript selections were made in 1932 by Mary Cotton Wisdom from originals held by her aunt Miss Minnie Cotton.

Related material:

Further material relating to the Rev. C.C. Cotton is found in the papers of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, MG 17 B 1.
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United States - Politics and government, 1798-1804 Society For the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1804-1848

Missionaries - Quebec (Province), 1808-1848 Dunham (Quebec), 1808-1848

Family records, 1786-1879

Church of England - Missions - Canada, 1804-1848

Insurgency - Canada, 1837

Quality of life - Canada, 1804-1848

Canada - Emigration and immigration, 1804

United States - Emigration and immigration, 1798

Quality of life - United States, 1798-1804

United States - History - War of 1812

Canada Rebellion, 1837-1838

Canada 1837-1838 (Rébellion)

Canada War of 1812

Canada 1812, Guerre de

Canada
Source:

Private

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MG24-J47
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG24 J 47] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1090] 95

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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