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Mather, Cotton

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  1. 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’s father, published a treatise that tactfully undermined the legitimacy of “spectral evidence” based on apparitions that were only visible to the accusers.

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

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Mather, Cotton, quoted, 337, 342.

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Mather, Cotton, 66, 68, 81, 158, 193.

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Mather, Cotton, “Essay to do good,” read by Franklin, 132; library of, 20.

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