 He is next found boarding, studying, and sometimes preaching, at the house of John Cotton, of Boston, Lincolnshire, which was frequented by puritan ministers.Here he met Ellen Winstanley, a native of Wigan, the niece of Mrs. Cotton, and married her at Boston church 16 April 1628.After the birth of his first son he planned with other ministers to go to New England; but he made a journey into Lancashire to his wife's relations.