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   Where did Increase Mather go to school?

   • Born in Dorchester, Mass., where his father was first minister, Increase Mather was educated at home and at Boston's free school. Taking his bachelor of arts degree from Harvard (1656), he studied and preached in England and Ireland.

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   Why was Increase Mather important?

   • In February 1674, Increase Mather delivered a sermon, entitled "The Day of Trouble is Near", the first of many great speeches to the faithful that would make him an influential Puritan leader in Boston and across the growing Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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   Who was a proponent of Increase Mather?

   • as to appropriate names for the new structures....” “The chief proponent for Increase Mather was Professor Kenneth Pusey photographs. Murdock [Professor of English, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1931-1936] the Master-designate of what was to become Leveret House.” Murdock, a specialist of Mather, but his views “did not prevail.”

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   Why is Increase Mather a controversial name?

   • In discussions at Harvard, Increase Mather’s name was often mentioned almost in passing as a controversial one, given that he was a long-time owner of a slave called Spaniard and that his name is associated with a defining aspect of the undergraduate experience at Harvard: one of the 12 residential Houses.

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   Increase Mather (/ ˈ m æ ð ər /; June 21, 1639 Old Style [page needed] – August 23, 1723 Old Style) was a New England Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and president of Harvard College for twenty years (1681–1701).

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   INCREASE MATHER (1639-1723). Even more than his illustrious son Cotton, Increase Mather, is representative of American Puritanism in seventeenth-century New England. As a leader of Boston’s ministry, he became the defender of Puritan orthodoxy during its decline; as president of Harvard, he guided the college through its most difficult period ...

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   Mar 26, 2024 · Increase Mather (born June 21, 1639, Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony [U.S.]—died August 23, 1723, Boston) was a Boston Congregational minister, author, and educator, who was a determining influence in the councils of New England during the crucial period when leadership passed into the hands of the first native-born generation.

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   Learn about Increase Mather, a prominent Puritan minister and leader in Boston and Massachusetts Bay Colony. Find out his role in the Salem Witch Trials, his views on spectral evidence, and his legacy in history and literature.

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   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).

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   May 18, 2018 · Learn about Increase Mather, a prominent Boston minister and president of Harvard College, who wrote Remarkable Providences, the first book on witchcraft in the American colonies. Find out how he used religious fervor and fear of evil to inspire the witch-hunts in New England.

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   Learn about Increase Mather, Harvard's seventh president and the namesake of Mather House, through research by Mather students and faculty. Explore his political and religious contributions, his involvement in the Salem Witch Trials and his slaveholding, and the decision to name a House after him in 1966.