Cotton Mather - Wikipedia
WEBCotton 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.
Cotton Mather | Biography, Beliefs, & Facts | Britannica
WEBMar 26, 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.
Salem Witch Trials: Cotton Mather - University of Virginia
WEBMather preached his first sermon in August of 1680, and went on to be ordained by 1685 at age 22. Besides his involvement with the witch trials in Salem during the 1690s, Cotton Mather is remembered as one of the most influential Puritan ministers of his day.
Biography of Cotton Mather, Clergyman and Scientist - ThoughtCo
WEBJun 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.
Biography: Cotton Mather (1662/3-1727/8) | The Mather Project
WEBCotton Mather's lifelong preoccupation with millennialism and its significance to his thought and work have only recently attracted full-scale attention. Beginning with Things to be Look'd for (1691), he published more than fifty works in …
Cotton Mather’s account of the Salem witch trials, 1693
WEBCotton 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 summary | Britannica
WEBCotton Mather, (born Feb. 12, 1663, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony—died Feb. 13, 1728, Boston), American Puritan leader.
Cotton Mather | Encyclopedia.com
WEBMay 21, 2018 · 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 founding family, he is popularly associated with the Salem witchcraft trials. Cotton Mather recorded the passing of an era.
Cotton Mather - American Literature - Oxford Bibliographies
WEBJan 11, 2022 · Introduction. Few colonial Americans continue to divide public opinion as sharply as does Cotton Mather (b. 1663–d. 1728), whose sullied reputation has never fully recovered from the Salem witchcraft tragedy.
Mather, Cotton - Oxford Reference
WEBMather, Cotton (1663–1728), eldest son of Increase Mather, and grandson of Richard Mather and John Cotton, was so impressed by his heritage that he not only thought of himself as the destined leader of the Massachusetts church and state, but attempted to recapture the spirit of his forefathers in a time when such a spirit was no longer …
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