| 1663/02/12 |
Maria Cotton Mather, wife of Increase Mather, gives birth to a son, Cotton Mather, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
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| 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 |
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Paul Revere House |
Boston |
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| 1688/00/00 |
The Mather family quits the wooden house at 342 Hanover Street (lost) in Boston. |
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Cantina Italiana, Boston |
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| 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. |
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Proctor's Ledge, Salem |
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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). |
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The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (book) |
Old State House |
Boston |
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Raid on Deerfield |
| 1728/02/13 |
Cotton Mather dies in Boston, MA. He is buried at Copp's Hill Burying Ground. |
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Copp's Hill Burial Ground |
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