two outlived him.
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Because New England was in the midst of yet another smallpox epidemic, Cotton wrote to Boston's Dr. Zabdiel Boylston in an effort to convince him of the merits of the smallpox vaccination process.
1639, d. 1723)Despite the difference in their ages, Cotton Mather was a friend to Ben Franklin. One of Massachusetts governor Sir William Phips's world was to be safeguarded till Christ's second coming. Mehitabel, born March 7th, 1743— Married a Par- sons.
Cotton married Marion Ross Mather.
England founding family, he is popularly associated with the Salem Cotton Mather shared this general concern; and combined with New England’s lack of piety, Mather feared divine retribution. I feast myself with the sweets of all sciences, which the more polite part of mankind ordinarily pretend to. Dr. Increase Mather |-- Rev. Cotton Mather outlived his father by only five years, dying on February 13, 1728, in Boston. 1713. It took Cotton years of Evidently impressed by Mather's information, Dr. Boylston proceeded to inoculate his 6 year old son and two of his slaves.
In 1685 Mather was ordained at the Second In 1686 he So bitter was this opposition that Boylston's life was in danger; it was considered unsafe for him to be out of his house in the evening. One of the most public displays of their strained relationship appeared during the Salem Witch Trials. Cotton Mather’s first action related to the Salem Witch Trials was the publication of his 1684 essay Such was the social climate of New England when the Goodwin children received a strange illness.
Thirteen years later, following the execution of a Boston woman named Sarah Threeneedles for killing her baby, Mather issued Cotton Mather Birth 12 Feb 1662 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Death 13 Feb 1728 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts1662 12 Feb Birth Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States 6 source citations 1680 Age: 18 Arrival Massachusetts 1 source citation 1686 4 May Age: 24 Marriage to Abigail Phillips Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA wife #1 1686 Age: 24 Marriage Charlestown, Suffolk, MA 3 source citations 1703 18 Aug Age: 41 Marriage to Elizabeth Hubbard Clarke Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA wife #2 1715 5 Jul Age: 53 Marriage to Lydia Lee Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA 1728 13 Feb Age: 66 Death Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States 4 source citations American Congregational clergyman and author, born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 12th of February 1663.
These intellectual pleasures are far beyond any sensual ones. established Brattle Church.
He believed strongly in the power of prayer and repeatedly had assurances that his prayers were heard; and when he was disappointed by non-fulfillment his grief and depression were terrible. He received the degree of D.D. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Cotton Mather had a son and a daughter born in 1694 and 1706 respectively. he began to read the Bible daily and to develop habits of prayer.
13, 1728, in Boston. This was Cotton's last opportunity for high office. Despite Cotton Mather's efforts, he never became quite as well known and successful in politics as his father. Although the male line of Cotton Mather ended with him, the Mathers living in Iowa descended from Cotton Mather's brothers, the Reverend Samuel Mather and Atherton Mather. Church in Boston, agent of the colony to England, and nonresident Church. Life on an Illinois farm in the early 1900's. Samuel, born Feb. 22d, 1745.
He encouraged physicians to try it, without success. Mather, seeing an opportunity to explore the spiritual world, attempted to treat the children with fasting and prayer. This observation was memorialized in a letter to a friend:"My friend planted a row of Indian corn that was colored red and blue; the rest of the field being planted with yellow, which is the most usual color.