Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather
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Short Name: Cotton Mather
Full Name: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
Birth Year: 1663
Death Year: 1728

Mather, Cotton, D.D., son of Increase Mather, D.D., a Puritan divine, was born at Boston, New England, in 1663, and died in 1728. He was educated at Harvard College, and was for sometime a pastor in Boston. He received his D.D. from Glasgow University, and he was F.R.S. (London.) His principal work was Christi Americana, or, an Ecclesiastical History of New England, from its Planting in 1620 to 1838. He was noted also for his work on Witchcraft entitled The Wonders of the Invisible World, &c, 1736.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Cotton Mather FRS (/ˈmæðər/; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a New England Puritan clergyman and a prolific writer. Educated at Harvard College, in 1685 he joined his father Increase as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting House of Boston, where he continued to preach for the rest of his life. A major intellectual and public figure in English-speaking colonial America, Cotton Mather helped lead the successful revolt of 1689 against Sir Edmund Andros, the governor imposed on New England by King James II. Mather's subsequent involvement in the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693, which he defended in the book Wonders of the Invisible World (1693), attracted intense controversy in his own day and has negatively affected his historical reputation. As a historian of coloni
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