Works about Rev Cotton Mather

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1663/02/12 Maria Cotton Mather, wife of Increase Mather, gives birth to a son, Cotton Mather, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Born
1676/00/00 Site of parsonage of the Second Church of Boston, home of Increase Mather and his family from 1670 until it was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1676 Home Paul Revere House Boston
1688/00/00 The Mather family quits the wooden house at 342 Hanover Street (lost) in Boston. Home Site Cantina Italiana, Boston Boston
1692/08/19 Martha Ingalls Allen Carrier (granddaughter of Edmund Ingalls), is denounced as a rampant hag by Cotton Mather and hanged as a witch at Proctor's Ledge, Salem. Site is near 7 Pope Street in Salem, MA. Judge Proctor's Ledge, Salem Salem, MA Salem Witch Trials
1707/03/00 "The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion" is published. Boston: Printed by B Green, for Samuel Phillips, at the brick shop (lost, across from Town House). Mentor The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (book) Old State House Boston Raid on Deerfield
1721/11/00 A vandal throws a bomb through Mather's window with a note that reads "Cotton Mather, you dog, dam you! I'll inoculate you with this, with a pox to you." The explosive, which did not detonate, was a violent response to Mather's support for vaccinations. Vocation Smallpox Vaccine
1728/02/13 Cotton Mather dies in Boston, MA. He is buried at Copp's Hill Burying Ground. Died Copp's Hill Burial Ground Boston
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