Increase mathers biography
Increase mathers biography
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Increase Mather
Puritan minister, academic, activist
Increase Mather (; June 21, 1639 Old Style – August 23, 1723 Old Style) was a New EnglandPuritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and president of Harvard College for twenty years (1681–1701).
He was influential in the administration of the colony during a time that coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials.
Early life and education
The New England Mathers originally came from the parish of Winwick near Liverpool, in Lancashire, England.
Increase Mather was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony,[4] on June 21, 1639, to the Rev. Richard Mather and Kathrine Holt Mather,[5] following their participation in the Great Migration from England due to their nonconformity to the Church of England.[6]
The stated reason for his first name was "…the never-to-be-forgotten increase, of every sort, wherewith God favoured the country about the time of his nativity."[7] The n