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Cotton Mather was a Puritan (a member of a group that broke away from the Church of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth century) preacher, historian (recorder of events and culture of the times), and the youngest man to graduate from Harvard College.
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He was widowed twice and had 15 children by his three wives—Abigail Phillips, Elizabeth ( née Clark) Hubbard, and Lydia ( née Lee) George—only two survived him. Cotton Mather’s heritage from his two grandfathers, Richard Mather and John Cotton, was both fortunate and unfortunate.
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Cotton Mather married Abigail Phillips, daughter of Colonel John Phillips of Charlestown, on May 4, 1686, when Cotton was twenty-three and Abigail was not quite sixteen years old. [11] [12] They had eight children. [12] Abigail died of smallpox in 1702, having previously suffered a miscarriage.
Jun 4, 2019 · He and his wives had a total of 15 children, but only six lived to be adults, and of those only two outlived Mather. Minister In 1685 Cotton Mather was ordained in the Second Church in Boston.
The eldest son of New England's leading divine, Increase Mather, and grandson of the colony's spiritual founders Richaard Mather and John Cotton, Mather was born in Boston, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1678; M.A. 1681), and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Glasgow University (1710). As pastor of Boston's Second Church ...
May 21, 2018 · 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 popularly associated with the Salem witchcraft trials. Cotton Mather recorded the passing of an era.
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The real Cotton Mather—the one who has since been forgotten—was a beloved pastor who loved Christ with all of his heart. And while an admitted sinner, he joyfully exulted in the love of God in Christ Jesus, praising Him for His glorious grace.
