Transcripts of papers in the Prince Collection, 1635-1689.

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Transcripts of papers in the Prince Collection, 1635-1689.

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Transcripts of the Mather papers in the Prince Collection at the Boston Public Library, copied by Edward Holden. Contain correspondence to and from Increase and Cotton Mather and other members of the Mather family. Most of the papers in this collection were not published with other Mather papers in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, fourth series, vol. VIII.

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Mather, Increase, 1639-1723

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"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 poli...

Mather family.

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Holden, Edward S.

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Boston Public Library. Prince Collection.

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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. ...