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COTTON, Roland Born : Hampton, N.H., August 29, 1674. Died: Warminster, Wiltshire, England, 1754.

Roland Cotton matriculated at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) July 23, 1696. He received his Med. cand. October 8, 1697 at the University of Harderwijk (The Netherlands). Also in 1697 he received (as Rowland Cotton) his Med. Doc. at the same University: 1697. Rowland Cotton, Anglus, <>, cassum morbi de apoplexia et Aphor. Hippocr. 39 sect. 6 exposuit, disputationis loco theses selectas defendit. Promotor Van de Graeff, assessores Meijer, Westenberg, Wijnen, Almeloveen. Roland Cotton is probably the first student born in America who graduated at a University of The Netherlands. Jeremiah Dummer who is widely believed to have been the first American-born individual to receive a Ph. D. from a European university received his Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) six years later in 1703.