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    Cotton Mather FRS (/ˈmæðər/; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively...
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    Whitehall. Increase Mather had published a book on witchcraft in 1684 and his son Cotton Mather published one in 1689. Increase Mather brought out a London...
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    became president of Harvard (and when his son Cotton Mather was only eighteen years old), Increase Mather began work on a manuscript that was to be a collection...
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    Richard Mather (1596 – 22 April 1669) was a New England Puritan minister in colonial Boston. He was father to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton Mather...
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    Libbie Marsh's Three Eras, in Howitt's Journal, under the pseudonym "Cotton Mather Mills". But other influences including Adam Smith's Social Politics...
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  • Cotton Mather is an American rock band from Austin, Texas, founded by Robert Harrison in 1990. Although the group started out as an experimental duo featuring...
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    Robert Cotton Mather (1808–1877) was an English missionary in India. The son of James Mather, a congregational minister, he was born at New Windsor, Manchester...
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    Reformed Christianity portal In a letter dated September 2, 1692, Cotton Mather wrote to judge William Stoughton. Among the notable things about this...
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  • publication by Cotton Mather entitled Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts. Mather names Smith but not Mary Webster. Mather describes how some...
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    Cotton Mather, 1689–1728 from the overthrow of Edmund Andros (in which Cotton Mather played a part) and the new charter, mediated by Increase Mather,...
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  • SS Cotton Mather was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Cotton Mather, a New England Puritan minister,...
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    1692–1693 and particularly examining the influential role played by Cotton Mather. Robert Calef, son of Joseph Calef, was baptized in Stanstead, Suffolk...
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    for his roles of agent Lincoln Lee on Fox's television series Fringe, Cotton Mather on WGN America's series Salem, and Adrian Moore on the FX series Nip/Tuck...
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  • was given to the New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather, who renamed him. Onesimus introduced Mather to the principle and procedure of the variolation...
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    mother married a neighbor and business partner, John White. Although Cotton Mather in his biography of Phips claimed that he was one of 26 children, this...
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    of Rowland Cotton, a Derby lawyer, and Mary Hurlbert, who was "a gracious and pious mother" according to Cotton's grandson Cotton Mather. He was educated...
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  • (Lee) George Mather (ca. 1670–January 23, 1734) was the English-American wife of wealthy businessman John George and Reverend Cotton Mather. She was the...
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    accusations against Glover and her execution: 1 - Cotton Mather's Memorable Providences (1689) Mather's book is the most extensive treatment of the trial...
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    from the famous minister Cotton Mather, but research on the lineage of Cotton Mather performed by his descendent, Horace E. Mather, indicates that this claim...
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  • when it formed in 1690, organized by the twenty-seven-year-old Rev.Cotton Mather and the elder Rev.Charles Morton. The first order of business was to...
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    Cotton Mather (1689–1728) from the overthrow of Edmund Andros (in which Cotton Mather played a part) and the new charter, mediated by Increase Mather...
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  • Puritan theologian Cotton Mather (1662–1728), who in 1710 published a widely read essay, Bonifacius, or an Essay to Do Good. Mather worried that the[specify]...
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  • Shane West as Captain John Alden, Mary's love interest Seth Gabel as Cotton Mather, the local witch hunter Ashley Madekwe as Tituba, Mary's friend and...
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    world would occur in either 1705, 1706 or 1708. 1716 Cotton Mather Revised prediction from Mather after his 1697 prediction failed to come true. 5 Apr...
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    April 1721 and February 1722. The outbreak motivated Puritan minister Cotton Mather and physician Zabdiel Boylston to variolate hundreds of Bostonians as...
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  • Historian Rick Kennedy has identified New England Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather as the "first American Evangelical". During the 17th century, Pietism...
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    her newborn daughter, Martha. According to the account Hannah gave to Cotton Mather, along the way her captors killed six-day-old Martha by smashing her...
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    hysteria in either North America or Europe, and afterwards, the Rev. Cotton Mather wrote a pamphlet titled Of Beelzebub and his Plot. Rabbinical literature...
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  • American basketball coach Cotton Mather (1663-1728), New England Puritan Cotton (nickname), a list of people with the nickname Cotton (surname), a list of...
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  • appear in important roles: Isaac Newton, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, King Louis XIV of France, Emperor Peter the Great of Russia, King Charles...
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