Cotton Mather

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Puritan minister author historian person theologian

Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.

Aliases (3)

Cotton Mather (1663–1728) ×1
Cotton Mather, a New England Puritan minister ×1
Mather ×1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Puritan minister → author → historian → person → theologian →
activeIn	Boston → New England →
almaMater	Harvard College →
centuryOfActivity	17th century → 18th century →
countryOfCitizenship	Massachusetts Bay Colony →
dateOfBirth	1663-02-12 →
dateOfDeath	1728-02-13 →
educatedAt	Harvard College →
ethnicGroup	English American →
familyName	Mather →
father	Increase Mather →
fullName	Cotton Mather →
genre	history → religious literature → sermon →
givenName	Cotton →
grandfather	John Cotton → Richard Mather →
influenced	early American religious thought →
influencedBy	Increase Mather → John Cotton →
knownFor	influence on New England Puritan religious life → involvement in the context of the Salem witch trials → prolific religious and historical writings →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
maritalStatus	married →
mother	Maria Cotton Mather →
movement	New England Puritanism → Puritanism →
notableWork	Essays to Do Good → Magnalia Christi Americana → The Christian Philosopher → Wonders of the Invisible World →
numberOfChildren	15 →
occupation	clergyman → historian → minister → pamphleteer → writer →
placeOfBirth	Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony →
placeOfDeath	Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay →
positionHeld	minister at Second Church of Boston →
religion	Congregationalism → Puritanism →
supported	smallpox inoculation in Boston →

Referenced by (25)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Book I: Antiquities → Book II: Ecclesiarum Clypei → Book III: Polybius → Essays to Do Good → Magnalia Christi Americana → The Christian Philosopher → The Christian Philosopher ("Cotton Mather (1663–1728)") → Wonders of the Invisible World → Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils →	author
Increase Mather → Maria Cotton Mather →	child
Puritanism → Salem witch trials →	keyFigure
Book II: Ecclesiarum Clypei →	authorName
Copp's Hill Burying Ground →	burialPlaceOf
Martha Carrier →	describedBySource
Cotton Mather ("Mather") →	familyName
Cotton Mather →	fullName
Richard Mather →	grandfatherOf
Mather family →	hasNotableMember
Increase Mather →	influenced
Maria Cotton Mather →	notableRelative
Richard Mather →	relative
The Christian Philosopher →	workOf
Book III: Polybius ("Cotton Mather, a New England Puritan minister") →	writtenBy