Rev Cotton Mather
Colonial American
Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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Puritans |
Lineage
- Father Rev Increase Mather
- Mother Maria Cotton Mather
- Brother: Nathaniel Mather
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Puritans |
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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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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