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    Increase Mather (/ˈmæðər/; June 21, 1639 Old Style[page needed] – August 23, 1723 Old Style) was a New England Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts...
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    his life. Cotton Mather was born in 1663 in the city of Boston, the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to the Rev. Increase Mather and his wife Maria...
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    Richard Mather (1596 – 22 April 1669) was a New England Puritan minister in colonial Boston. He was father to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton...
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    to Whitehall. Increase Mather had published a book on witchcraft in 1684 and his son Cotton Mather published one in 1689. Increase Mather brought out a...
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    Mather House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. Opened in 1970, it is named after Increase Mather, a Puritan in...
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  • Increase came to be used primarily by Puritans in the early colonial United States, particularly in New England. It was written about Increase Mather...
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    Mather and Cooke together. Is great wrath about Mr. Cooke's being refused and tis supposed Mr. [Increase] Mather is the cause." See Increase Mather's...
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  • recently published by his father, Harvard president Increase Mather in 1684. As early as 1681, Increase Mather had met with "ministers in this colony" and begun...
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  • American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather, 1639–1723' (1988) Hall, M.G., 1961, October. The Autobiography of Increase Mather. In Proceedings of the American...
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    It was founded in 1850 by Edmund Mather as a London-based agency. In 1964, the firm became known as Ogilvy & Mather after merging with a New York City...
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    Colonel Miles Quaritch in the upcoming sequels to Avatar. He plays Increase Mather, in a recurring role, on WGN America's first original scripted series...
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    Cotton Mather, 1689–1728 from the overthrow of Edmund Andros (in which Cotton Mather played a part) and the new charter, mediated by Increase Mather, to...
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    Cotton Mather (1689–1728) from the overthrow of Edmund Andros (in which Cotton Mather played a part) and the new charter, mediated by Increase Mather, to...
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    Square, and the Fenway. Ministers included Michael Powell, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1970 it merged with Boston's First...
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  • 2014 episode, Stephen Lang joined the cast in the recurring role of Increase Mather. For the second season, Lucy Lawless and Stuart Townsend joined Salem...
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    September 19, 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2024. "Biographical Notes on Increase Mather". Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Archived from the original on...
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  • Increase Mather, by Cotton Mather, was published in 1724. In his book, Cotton Mather shares excerpts from the diary of his father, Increase Mather, concerning...
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  • Gloriana Embry, Cotton's love interest later banished by Increase Stephen Lang as Increase Mather, Cotton's father who takes over the witch hunt Morgana...
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  • Puritan contemporaries, Increase Mather and Cotton Mather, openly proclaimed a belief in a literal millennium. Increase Mather wrote "That which presseth...
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  • Association Minutes. Day of Doom p 30 Cotton Mather letter October 20, 1692 Increase Mather Cases bound with Cotton Mather Wonders of the Invisible World in 1862...
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    Davenport and Increase Mather wrote against the synod, while Mitchell, John Allen and Richard Mather defended it. Eventually, Increase Mather changed his...
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  • Northampton Church to stand in for the recently deceased Eleazar Mather, brother of Increase Mather. He accepted the offer, and relocated to Northampton, which...
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    Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather (nephew of Increase Mather), Rev. James Noyes II (son of James Noyes), James Pierpont...
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    Stephen Tyng Mather (July 4, 1867 – January 22, 1930) was an American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park...
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    and Increase Mather. They were opposed to the rule of Andros, and they organized dissent targeted to influence the court in London. Increase Mather sent...
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    "all sorts of fever[s]", consumption, and fire. The Puritan minister Increase Mather dismissed the word as bereft of power. Daniel Defoe also wrote dismissively...
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    Boston. The religious leaders of Massachusetts, led by Cotton and Increase Mather, were opposed to the rule of Andros and organized dissent targeted...
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  • Remarkable Providences is an essay by Increase Mather, first published in 1684 under the title An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences....
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    Marbury Stephen Marshall Walter Marshall (Puritan) Cotton Mather Increase Mather Richard Mather John Maynard (1604–1690) John Mayo (minister) Joseph Mede...
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    choice as successor by the Governing Board of Harvard, first choice Cotton Mather could not be released from his pastoral obligations, a second choice declined...
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