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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, both celebrated Boston theologians.
Richard Mather was an English-born American Congregational minister, father of Increase Mather and three other Puritan ministers. After joining the Great Migration of Puritans from England to New England (1635), he was elected “teacher” minister at Dorchester, Mass., and became locally celebrated.
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Richard Mather (1596-1669), progenitor of a family dynasty of New England clergymen, was born in Lowton, Lancashire, England, in 1596, educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and ministered to a church in Toxteth Park (Liverpool), before being twice suspended for nonconformity to the Anglican Church Discipline by Richard Neile, archbishop of York.
The Reverend Richard Mather (1596 – 22 April 1669) was a Puritan minister in colonial Boston, Massachusetts. He was father to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton Mather, both celebrated Boston divines.
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Richard Mather was a British Puritan clergyman who fled to Massachusetts in 1635 and became the pastor of Dorchester. He helped to write the Cambridge Platform and the Bay Psalm Book.
RICHARD MATHER (1596-1669), American Congregational clergyman, was born in Lowton, in the parish of Winwick, near Liverpool, England, of a family which was in reduced circumstances but entitled to bear a coat-of-arms.
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Richard Mather (1596 – 22 April 1669) was a Puritan minister in colonial Boston, Massachusetts. He was father to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton Mather, both celebrated Boston theologians.
