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Cotton Mather was born in 1663 in the city of Boston, the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to the Rev. Increase Mather and his wife Maria née Cotton. His grandfathers were Richard Mather and John Cotton , both of them prominent Puritan ministers who had played major roles in the establishment and growth of the Massachusetts colony.
Cotton Mather omstreeks 1700. Cotton Mather (Boston, 12 februari 1663 - aldaar, 13 februari 1728), was een sociaal en politiek invloedrijke puriteinse predikant uit New England, en een productief schrijver en pamflettist. Hij is met name bekend om de rol die hij speelde in de heksenprocessen van Salem.
Cotton Mather nasceu em 1663 na cidade de Boston, capital da Colônia da Baía de Massachusetts, filho do Rev. Growth Mather e sua esposa Maria née Cotton. Seus avós eram Richard Mather e John Cotton, ambos proeminentes ministros puritanos que desempenharam papéis importantes no estabelecimento e crescimento da colônia de Massachusetts.
Mather published more than 400 works over the course of his life. His magnum opus, Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), an ecclesiastical history of America from the founding of New England to his own time, influenced later American statesmen and religious leaders to see a divine providence in the rise of America as a refuge from European monarchal abuses and for those seeking religious freedom.
11 de jan. de 2022 · The eldest child of the New England clergyman Increase Mather and grandson of the Bay Colony’s Puritan founders Richard Mather and John Cotton, Cotton Mather was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and became the most prominent scion of a family dynasty of clergymen that spanned four generations (1596–1785).
Cotton Maher var sønn av Increase Mather, nevø av Samuel Mather og barnebarn av John Cotton og Richard Mather, som alle var ledende skikkelser i den annen henholdsvis første generasjon puritanere i Boston. Mather tok eksamen ved Harvard i 1678, etter tre års studier, bare 15 år gammel.
31 de dez. de 2014 · On a November day in 1721, a small bomb was hurled through the window of a local Boston Reverend named Cotton Mather. Attached to the explosive, which fortunately did not detonate, was the message: “Cotton Mather, you dog, dam you! I’ll inoculate you with this; with a pox to you.’’ This was not a religiously motivated act of terrorism, but a violent response to Reverend …
