Cotton Mather was a Puritan theologian, naturalist and historian, born on 12 February 1663 and dead on 15 February 1728, who was active in New England as a clergyman. After being educated at Harvard College he joined his father Increase Mather as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting House in Boston, where he preached for the rest of his life. He published numerous texts on demonology, morality, apologetics, natural history, medicine and New England history, and he has been called the first American Evangelical. His involvement in the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693, which he defended in Wonders of the Invisible World, drew intense controversy, and as a historian of colonial New England he is noted for Magnalia Christi Americana of 1702.
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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.
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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.
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Lydia nursed him through illnesses, the last of which lasted five weeks and ended with his death on February 15, 1728.
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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.
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Cotton Mather (; February 12, 1663, February 15, 1728) was a Puritan theologian, naturalist and historian active in New England as a clergyman, publishing numerous texts concerning subjects including demonology, morality, apologetics, natural history, zoology, botany, meteorology, astronomy, medicine, fossils, agriculture, and New England history.
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Magnalia Christi Americana (roughly, The Glorious Works of Christ in America) is a book published in 1702 by the puritan minister Cotton Mather (1663-1728).
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