Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather (; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects. After being educated at Harvard College, he joined his father Increase as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts, where he preached for the rest of his life. He has been referred to as the "first American Evangelical".A major intellectual and public figure in English-speaking colonial America, Cotton Mather helped lead the successful revolt of 1689 against Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of New England appointed by King James II. Mather's subsequent involvement in the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693, which he defended in the book ''Wonders of the Invisible World'' (1693), attracted intense controversy in his own day and has negatively affected his historical reputation. As a historian of colonial New England, Mather is noted for his ''Magnalia Christi Americana'' (1702).
Personally and intellectually committed to the waning social and religious orders in New England, Cotton Mather unsuccessfully sought the presidency of Harvard College. After 1702, Cotton Mather clashed with Joseph Dudley, the governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, whom Mather attempted unsuccessfully to drive out of power. Mather championed the new Yale College as an intellectual bulwark of Puritanism in New England. He corresponded extensively with European intellectuals and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Glasgow in 1710.
A promoter of the new experimental science in America, Cotton Mather carried out original research on plant hybridization. He also researched the variolation method of inoculation as a means of preventing smallpox contagion, which he learned about from an African-American slave who he owned, Onesimus. He dispatched many reports on scientific matters to the Royal Society of London, which elected him as a fellow in 1713. Mather's promotion of inoculation against smallpox caused violent controversy in Boston during the outbreak of 1721. Scientist and United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, who as a young Bostonian had opposed the old Puritan order represented by Mather and participated in the anti-inoculation campaign, later described Mather's book ''Bonifacius'', or ''Essays to Do Good'' (1710) as a major influence on his life. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Mather, Cotton
Published 1725
Published 1725
Printed for J. Phillips, and sold at his shop on the south side of the Town-House in King Street
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by Mather, Cotton
Published 1717
Published 1717
Printed by B. Green, for Samuel Gerrish, and sold at his shop near the Town-House
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by Mather, Cotton
Published 1738
Published 1738
Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, for D. Henchman in Corn-hill, and Nath. Procter at the Bible and Dove in Fish Street
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by Mather, Cotton
Published 1715
Published 1715
Printed by T. Fleet, for S. Gerrish, on the north-side of the Town-House
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by Mather, Cotton
Published 1717
Published 1717
Printed by John Allen, for Daniel Henchman, at his shop, over-against the Brick Meeting-House
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by Mather, Cotton
Published 1717
Published 1717
Printed by J. Allen, for Nicholas Boone, at the sign of the Bible in Cornhill
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by Mather, Cotton
Published 1725
Published 1725
Printed by T. Fleet, for S. Gerrish, near the Brick Meeting-House, in Cornhill
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by Mather, Cotton
Published 1715
Published 1715
Printed by T. Fleet & T. Crump, for Samuel Gerrish, on the north side of the Town-House, in King-Street
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by Mather, Cotton
Published 1715
Published 1715
Printed by B. Green. Sold by S. Gerrish, at his shop at the n. side of the T. House
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by Mather, Increase
Published 1724
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Printed by B. Green, sold by Samuel Gerrish, at his shop near the Brick Meeting-House in Cornhill
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by Wigglesworth, Michael
Published 1751
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“...Mather, Cotton...”Published 1751
Printed and sold by Thomas Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill