Article: Increase Mather
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      499 words ...Increase Mather Increase Mather (1639-1723), American...was first minister, Increase Mather was educated at home...served until his death. Increase Mather went to England in...close the trials. Yet Increase and Cotton Mather were implicated ...

Article: Peter Pelham
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      45 words ......b. England; stepfather of John Singleton Copley . After studying and practicing in England, Pelham settled (c.1728) in Boston. He produced engravings of Cotton Mather and Increase Mather based on his own paintings. He also conducted a school.

Article: Salem Witchcraft Trials
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      400 words ......by sermons from such clergymen as Cotton Mather , the belief was soon widespread...able to afflict the people at large. Increase Mather is frequently held responsible for...governor's wife, some near relatives of Cotton Mather, and the sons of ex‐Governor...1692) was written ...

Article: Calef, Robert
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      62 words ......those responsible for the Salem witchcraft trials (1692), particularly Cotton Mather, who replied in Some Few Remarks upon a Scandalous Book (1701). Increase Mather is said to have ordered Calef's book burned in the Harvard Yard.

Article: John Wise
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      165 words ......represented Ipswich in the Boston convention for reorganization of the colonial government. In opposition to Increase Mather and Cotton Mather, he resisted the plan to place individual churches under the jurisdiction of associations of ministers...

Article: Mather, Cotton
U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Cotton Mather Born: March 19...historian and clergyman Cotton Mather was a Puritan...March 19, 1663, Cotton Mather was the eldest...Cotton's father, Increase Mather, was minister to...speech problem. Cotton Mather, having made remarkable...meetings ...

Article: Andros, Sir Edmund
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      101 words ......was an autocratic governor of this Dominion of New England until a Boston uprising led by Cotton Mather and probably instigated by Increase Mather precipitated reforms. Under William and Mary the colonies returned to their former charter...

Article: Cotton Mather
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Cotton Mather Cotton Mather (1663-1728), Puritan...witchcraft trials. Cotton Mather recorded the passing...on March 19, 1663, Cotton was the eldest son of Increase and Maria Mather and...American theologians. Increase Mather was minister to the...His father ...

Article: Mather, Samuel
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      152 words ...Mather, Samuel (1706–85),son of Cotton Mather, was graduated from Harvard (1723) and the following year...Among them were a Life of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather (1729), Attempt To Shew That America Must Be Known to...

Article: Bonifacius
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      41 words ...Bonifacius, essay by Cotton Mather , published in 1710 with the subtitle An Essay Upon the Good, That Is To Be Devised and Designed … , often reissued as Essays To Do Good . Franklin liked it because it anticipated his practical Yankee view of good deeds.

Article: (book reviews)
The Historian;  March 22, 1993 ;     472 words ......demonstrates his thesis. He ranges from William Bradford, Cotton Mather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and James Baldwin to Francis Parkman...tried to escape the pressing issues of their troubled society Cotton Mather and the New England divines lost themselves in the Bible...

Article: An early American philanthropist.(Brief Article)
The Magazine Antiques;  February 1, 2001 ;     415 words ......to England in 1699 with a large fortune. In January 1718 Cotton Mather wrote to Yale suggesting that a munificent donation to Collegiate...Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow; and finally there is a likeness of Cotton Mather. There is no catalogue of this exhibition, which is drawn...

Article: Barrett Wendell
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      60 words ......Harvard, 1877. He taught at Harvard (1880-1917) and lectured at Cambridge and the Sorbonne. Among his works are a study of Cotton Mather (1891) and A Literary History of America (1900), the outgrowth of the first course in the subject at Harvard. Bibliography...

Article: 1600-1754: Science and Medicine: Headline Makers
American Eras;      32 words ...1600-1754: Science and Medicine: Headline Makers John Bartram (1699-1777) Jane Colden (1724-1766) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Louis Hennepin (1640-1701?) John Josselyn (1608?-1675?) Cotton Mather (1663-1728)