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Cotton Mather FRS (/ ˈ m æ ð ər /; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects.
Jul 11, 2024 · Cotton Mather (born February 12, 1663, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony [U.S.]—died February 13, 1728, Boston) was an American Congregational minister and author, supporter of the old order of the ruling clergy, who became the most celebrated of all New England Puritans.
Jun 4, 2019 · Cotton Mather was a Puritan clergyman in Massachusetts known for his scientific studies and literary works, as wells as for the peripheral role he played in the witchcraft trials at Salem. He was a highly influential figure in early America.
COTTON MATHER (1662/3-1727/8). The eldest son of New England's leading divine, Increase Mather, and grandson of the colony's spiritual founders Richaard Mather and John Cotton, Mather was born in Boston, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1678; M.A. 1681), and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Glasgow University (1710).
Apr 19, 2023 · Cotton Mather was born on February 12th, 1663 — the son of Puritan theologian Increase Mather and Maria Cotton. His family had deep religious roots. Both of his grandfathers, John Cotton and Richard Mather, had been important Puritan ministers.
Cotton Mather, (born Feb. 12, 1663, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony—died Feb. 13, 1728, Boston), American Puritan leader. The son of Increase Mather, he earned a master’s degree from Harvard College and was ordained a Congregational minister in 1685, after which he assisted his father at Boston’s North Church (1685–1723). He helped ...
May 21, 2018 · Cotton Mather >Cotton Mather (1663-1728), Puritan clergyman, historian, and pioneering >student of science, was an indefatigable man of letters. Of the third >generation of a New England [1] founding family, he is popularly associated >with the Salem witchcraft trials.
Introduction. Born in Boston in 1663, Cotton Mather was the son of Increase Mather and the grandson of Richard Mather and John Cotton. This legacy of famous Puritan ministers and community leaders shaped Mather’s life and was the driving force behind many of his achievements.
Cotton Mather, a prolific author and well-known preacher, wrote this account in 1693, a year after the trials ended. Mather and his fellow New Englanders believed that God directly intervened in the establishment of the colonies and that the New World was formerly the Devil’s territory.
Cotton Mather, scholar, clergyman, and author, was the oldest son of Increase Mather, one of the leading figures in the Puritan theocracy in Massachusetts. The younger Mather was so precocious that he entered Harvard College at the age of twelve and was graduated at fifteen.
