Mather, Cotton

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A scholar and religious leader of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Mather, a prominent Massachusetts Puritan, urged the suppression of witchcraft and supported the Salem witch trials.

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Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and other eminent ministers cautioned against the misuse of evidence but warned authorities to take the charges seriously.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Mather, Cotton, i, 112, 237; iii, 101; viii, 23.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Hubbard, Elbert

—Letter to Cromwell, by Mather Cotton: Carlyle's Letters and Speeches, vol. ii. p.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John

Mather, Cotton, list of errata in his "Magnalia," 160.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

Mather, Cotton, quoted, upon the Franklins, 301, 302.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

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