Letter, 1682.

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Letter, 1682.

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Typewritten copy of a letter from Mather to John Higginson, concerning a plan to capture the ship Welcome and William Penn and his Quaker follwers, send them to Barbadoes, and sell them as slaves so they would not defile the new country with their "heathen worship."

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728

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Mather was an American Puritan clergyman and writer. Mather attended Harvard (A.B. 1678, M.A. 1681) and served as minister at the Second Church in Boston from 1685 until his death. His advice was sought during the Salem witch trials. During his lifetime Mather wrote more than 450 books. ...