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Cotton Mather
American religious minister and scientific writer
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Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions : a faithful account of many wonderful and surprising things that have befallen several bewitched and possesed person in New-England, particularly a narrative of the marvellous trouble and releef experienced by a pious family in Boston, very lately and sadly molested with evil spirits : whereunto is added a discourse delivered unto a congregation in Boston on the occasion of that illustrious providence : as also a discourse delivered unto the same congregation on the occasion of an horrible self-murder committed in the town : with an appendix in vindication of a chapter in a late book of remarkable providences from the calumnies of a Quaker at Pen-silvania / written by Cotton Mather ... and recommended by the ministers of Boston and Charleston.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
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Date: [1689]
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The way to excel : Meditations, awakened by the death of the reverend Mr. Joshua Moodey; with some short character of the eminent person: who slept in Jesus, 4d. 5 m. 1697. In the sixty fifth year of his age / by Cotton Mather.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
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Date: 1697
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Right thoughts in sad hours : representing the comforts and the duties of good men under all their afflictions; and particularly, that one, the untimely death of children: in a sermon delivered at Charls-town, New England; under a fresh experience of that calamity.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
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Date: 1689
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Warnings from the dead. or, Solemn admonitions unto all people; but especially unto young persons to beware of such evils as would bring them to the dead / Cotton Mather ; In two discourses, occasioned by a sentence of death, executed on some unhappy malefactors. Together with the last confession, made by a young woman, who dyed on June 8. 1693. One of these malefactors.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
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Date: 1693
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Salem witchcaft : comprising More wonders of the invisible world, collected by Robert Calef, and Wonders of the invisible world, by Cotton Mather together with notes and explanations / by Samuel P. Fowler.
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Date: 1865
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Massachusetts
Witchcraft - New England
New England
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17th-18th centuries
Puritans
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