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In Cases of Conscience, Increase Mather

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This post highlights a few aspects of the remarkable life of my 8th great paternal grandfather, Rev. Increase Mather (1639-1723). Increase is considered an influential representative of American Puritanism in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in seventeenth-century New England. (Increase is… Continue Reading →

Dear John from Oliver Cromwell

John Cotton, my 9th paternal great-grandfather, was born in 1585 in Derby, England and died in 1652 in Boston, Massachusetts.  He was,  according to many accounts, the preeminent clergyman and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  Cotton studied five years… Continue Reading →

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