Cotton Mather
American religious minister and scientific writer (1663-1728) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 65
Cotton Mather was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects.
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Mather lived on Hanover Street, Boston, 1688-1718[11]
Holograph copy of Cotton Mather's letter of advice to John Richards concerning the impending trials at Salem, May 31, 1692
The Return of Several Ministers, written in Cotton Mather's hand
The Mather tomb in Copp's Hill Cemetery in Boston
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After being educated at Harvard College, he joined his father Increase Mather as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting House in Boston, then part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he preached for the rest of his life. He has been referred to as the "first American Evangelical".
