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With Phips went Increase Mather's highest patron in civil government and any hopes he might have had of restraining the court in Salem. As June stretched into July, the pace of arrests, examinations, and imprisonments only quickened leading to the execution of five women on July 19.
The Reverend Increase Mather (June 21, 1639 – August 23, 1723) was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now the federal state of Massachusetts).
Mather students, led by Mather Faculty Dean Christie McDonald and Karl Aspelund ’17, came together to conduct research into the life and legacy of Increase Mather, Harvard’s seventh president and the namesake of Mather House. The effort was in response to a growing discussion about confronting the historical legacies of
Increase Mather, (born June 21, 1639, Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony—died Aug. 23, 1723, Boston), American Puritan leader. The son of a Puritan cleric, he was educated at Harvard College and at Trinity College, Dublin. He returned to New England and served as minister of Boston’s North Church (1661–1723).
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May 18, 2018 · Increase Mather (1639-1723), American colonial representative, president of Harvard College, and author, was the most prominent member of the second generation in Massachusetts colony. Born in Dorchester, Mass., where his father was first minister, Increase Mather was educated at home and at Boston's free school.
Oct 4, 2021 · Increase Mather went public with his strong opposition to the use of spectral evidence in witchcraft trials in early October, arguing in his treatise Cases of Conscience that “It were better ...
