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Increase Mather

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Puritan minister, academic, activist (1639-1723)

WritersLived 1639 to 1723 · aged 84
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Increase Mather was a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the sixth president of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701. During his tenure, which coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials, he was influential in the administration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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