Question: In 2001, what was the population of the town where John Cotton served as a minister?
Context: Boston ( ) is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England.  It is the largest town of the wider Borough of Boston local government district.  The borough had a total population of 66,900, at the ONS mid 2015 estimates, while the town itself had a population of 35,124 at the 2001 census.  It is due north of Greenwich on the Prime Meridian. He was the son of John Cotton and Frances Downing.  His father was the eldest son of Sir John Cotton, 3rd Baronet, of Connington, and his first wife Dorothy Anderson.  His mother was the daughter of the eminent statesman and financier Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet and his wife Frances Howard. John Cotton (born October 30, 1970 in Houston, Texas) is a retired professional baseball player and an Olympic gold medalist in baseball.  Cotton has played 15 seasons in minor league baseball, his last coming in 2003.  Over his career, he has played in the Cleveland Indians organization (1989–1993), the San Diego Padres organization (1994–1995), the Detroit Tigers organization (1996), the Chicago White Sox organization (1997), the Chicago Cubs organization (1998), the Colorado Rockies organization (1999–2000), the Montreal Expos organization (2001), the Los Angeles Dodgers organization (2001), the Pittsburgh Pirates organization (2001), and independent league baseball (2002–2003).  During the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Cotton won a gold medal as a member of the United States national baseball team.  Cotton has batted .256 with 1361 hits, 237 doubles, 59 triples and 190 home runs in 1530 minor league games.  On the defensive side, Cotton has played 457 career games at second base, 570 in the outfield, 162 games at third base, 191 at first base, 35 games at shortstop and one game at catcher. John Williams (10 December 1664 – 12 June 1729) was a New England Puritan minister who became famous for "The Redeemed Captive", his account of his captivity by the Mohawk after the Deerfield Massacre during Queen Anne's War.  He was an uncle of the notable pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards.  <br> His first wife Eunice Mather was a niece of Rev Increase Mather and a cousin of Rev. Cotton Mather and was related to Rev. John Cotton. Josiah Cotton (1679/80–1756) was an Indian missionary, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Register of Deeds and Plymouth Colony civil magistrate.  He was a grandson of John Cotton (1585–1652) and a nephew of Cotton Mather.  His father John Cotton Jr. was a pastor of the First Church in Plymouth Colony from 1669 to 1697. Giles Firmin (1614–1697) was an English minister and physician, deacon in the first church in Massachusetts of John Cotton, and ejected minister in 1662. John Cotton (4 December 1585 – 23 December 1652) was a clergyman in England and the American colonies and, by most accounts, the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  He studied for five years at Trinity College, Cambridge and another nine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.  He had already built a reputation as a scholar and outstanding preacher when he accepted the position of minister at Saint Botolph's Church in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1612.  As a Puritan, he wanted to do away with the ceremony and vestments associated with the established Anglican Church and preach in a simpler manner.  He felt that the English church needed significant reforms, yet he was also adamant about not separating from it; his preference was to change it from within.  Many ministers were removed from their pulpits for their Puritan practices, but Cotton thrived at St. Botolph's for nearly 20 years because of supportive aldermen and lenient bishops, as well as his very conciliatory and gentle demeanor.  By 1632, however, the Anglican church had greatly increased its pressure on the non-conforming clergy, and Cotton was forced to go into hiding.  The following year, he and his wife boarded a ship for New England. Rev. Ralph Levett (1600 – c. 1660) was an Anglican minister who served as domestic chaplain to an aristocratic English family from Lincolnshire with Puritan sympathies, who subsequently installed him as rector of the local parish.  A graduate of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he became a protégé of the prominent Puritan minister John Cotton, Levett later married the sister of the wife of his friend Rev. John Wheelwright, another well-known early Puritan settler of New England. The John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award, usually referred to as the John Cotton Dana Award, is an annual award given by the Library Leadership and Management Association, American Library Association for excellence in library public relations.  It is named for John Cotton Dana, a Progressive Era librarian who strove to make libraries accessible to as many people as possible.  This award has been given continuously since 1946 and is sponsored by EBSCO Information Services, the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).  Eight winners receive a $10,000 prize and a plaque.  The award is considered to be the ALA's most prestigious honor. The Antinomian Controversy, also known as the Free Grace Controversy, was a religious and political conflict in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.  It pitted most of the colony's ministers and magistrates against some adherents of the Free Grace theology of Puritan minister John Cotton.  The most notable Free Grace advocates, often called "Antinomians", were the charismatic Anne Hutchinson, her brother-in-law Reverend John Wheelwright, and the young governor of the colony Henry Vane.  The controversy was a theological debate concerning the "covenant of grace" and "covenant of works".
Answer: 35,124