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Salem Witch Trials in History and Literature. An Undergraduate Course, University of Virginia. Spring Semester 2001. Born on Feb. 12th 1663 into a family of renown New England Puritan ministers, including Rev. John Cotton and Rev. Richard Mather, Cotton Mather seemed destined to achieve fame.
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). As pastor of Boston's Second Church ...
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).
Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728). A.B. 1678 ( Harvard College ), A.M. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow), was a socially and politically influential Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer.
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.
In all, Cotton Mather published more than 450 titles on virtually every subject of significance at the time. He owned the largest private library in the English colonies of North America and left behind in manuscript form several major works that only recently have begun to appear in print.
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was born in Boston to Increase Mather and Maria (Cotton) Mather. A major spiritual and intellectual figure in early New England, Cotton Mather played an active role in colonial politics and was a prolific author who published hundreds of works in his lifetime.
