Mather, Cotton
March 19, 1663
Boston, Massachusetts
February 13, 1728
Boston, Massachusetts
Clergyman and scientist
Portrait: Cotton Mather. Reproduced by permission of The Library of Congress.
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From the Wonders of the Invisible World (1693) by Cotton Mather
From The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693)
Reprinted in American Literature: A Prentice
Hall Anthology, Volume 1 in 1991
Cotton Math...
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Mather, Cotton
Born: 1663 Boston, Massachusetts
Died: 1728 Boston, Massachusetts
Clergyman, scientist, and writer
Puritan minister Cotton Mather was instrumental in escalating the witch-hunts in New E...
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Mather, Cotton(1663–1728)
Cotton Mather, scholar, clergyman, and author, was the oldest son of Increase Mather, one of the leading figures in the Puritan theocracy in Massachusetts. The younger...
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Cotton Mather (1663-1728), Puritan clergyman, historian, and pioneering student of science, was an indefatigable man of letters. Of the third generation of a New England founding family, he is popular...
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Cotton Mather was born in Boston on 12 February 1663, the eldest child of Increase Mather and Maria Cotton Mather, who was the daughter of John Cotton, an elder statesman of the first generation of se...
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Cotton Mather's life was as genetically and environmentally determined as it was for him theologically predestined. The first child of Increase and Maria Cotton Mather, he was born in Boston on 12 Feb...
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The Mather library developed through several generations. Richard Mather began the family book collection, part of which descended to Increase, who made it one of seventeenth-century New England's mos...
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Biography EssayCotton Mather was born in Boston on 12 February 1663, the eldest child of Increase Mather and Maria Cotton Mather, who was the daughter of John Cotton, an elder statesman of the first g...
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Mather uses a very objective tone throughout the Trial of Martha Carrier. He begins with introducing the case. He tone is casual, and restricted to the basics. It gives the reader a general overvie...
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Mather, Cotton
From the Wonders of the Invisible World (1693) by Cotton Mather
Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather
