Letter, 1678 July 13, Cambridge [Mass.] to Increase Mather, Boston.

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Letter, 1678 July 13, Cambridge [Mass.] to Increase Mather, Boston.

Oakes' letter transmitting candidates' theses to Mather with suggestions to alter or expunge certain passages and seeking Mather's concurrence. With address and seal.

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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...

Harvard College (1636-1780)

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Samuel Mather (1677-1746) was a member of a prominent Connecticut family. He was born in Branford, Connecticut in 1677; his parents were the Reverend Samuel and Hannah (Treat) Mather. When Samuel was four, his family moved to Windsor, Connecticut. He attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1698 and an A.M. in 1701. He began studying medicine in 1698 and by 1702 he was admitted "to be a Practitioner of Physick and Chyrurgy." He was quickly successful, and in 1710 was appointed a surgeon to...

Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681

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Colonial poet, clergyman and president of Harvard College, 1675-1681. From the description of Letter, 1678 July 13, Cambridge [Mass.] to Increase Mather, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 20690243 Urian Oakes (1631-1681) was a colonial poet, clergyman, and college president. He was a 1649 Harvard grauate who worked in England for several years before returning to Massachusetts to become pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge. Oakes was involved in a contro...