Mather, Increase, 1639-1723

"Increase Mather, the youngest son of the Reverend Richard Mather of Dorchester, and the father of Cotton Mather, has been described as the 'foremost American Puritan' of his generation. Teacher of the Second Church of Boston for more than fifty years, President of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701, agent for Massachusetts Bay in England to request the return of the Charter, and the author of approximately 175 books, pamphlets, prefaces and printed sermons, Mather was intimately involved in political and religious affairs in Boston during the last four decades of the seventeenth century"--Guide.

From the description of Increase Mather papers, [1659-1715] [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 238873595

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