Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a politically important Puritan minister and writer. He was the son of minister Increase Mather and lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of colonial America, in the area that is now Boston, Massachusetts.

Cotton Mather
File:Cotton Mather.jpg Cotton Mather, circa 1700
Born	(1663-02-12)February 12, 1663
Died	February 13, 1728(1728-02-13) (aged 65)
Occupation	Minister

He is best known for his connection to the Salem witch trials.

Cotton Mather Media

• Richard Mather.png

  Portrait of Richard Mather. Woodcut from a photograph of the original in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester Mass. The original was the first print known to have been made in the American colonies according to Michael G. Hall: Increase Mather. The Last American Puritan. Wesleyan UP, 1988, p. 9.

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  Rev. John Cotton (1585–1652). (It also might be Rev. John Cotton’s grandson, Josiah Cotton (1679-1756), Justice of the Peace in Plymouth, or a great grandson of Rev. John Cotton, John Cotton (1693- ), the third minister of Newton, Massachusetts. See details for additional information: RESEARCH INTO PORTRAIT/S OF REV. JOHN COTTON.

• CottonMather house HanoverSt Boston.png

  Mather lived on Hanover Street, Boston, 1688–1718

• CM essay May 31, 1692.jpg

  Holograph copy of Cotton Mather's letter of advice to John Richards concerning the impending trials at Salem, May 31, 1692

• Return of Several Ministers, June 15, 1692.jpg

  The Return of Several Ministers, written in Cotton Mather's hand

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  Letter from Cotton Mather to Judge William Stoughton, September 2, 1692

• Cotton Mathers - Richard L. Gunn.jpg

  painting of Cotton Mather by Richard L. Gunn

• Increase Mather grave.jpg

  The Mather tomb in Copp's Hill Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts