Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a politically important Puritan minister and writer. He was the son of minister Increase Mather and lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of colonial America, in the area that is now Boston, Massachusetts.

He is best known for his connection to the Salem witch trials.

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