Cotton Mather, the minister of Boston's Old North church, was a true believer in witchcraft and played an integral role of the witchcraft trials of the late 1600's, and even today remains one of the strongest clerical figures of the early New England Puritan society. Mather, born in 1663, spoke several languages including Latin ... Phillips, and then later in life to Elizabeth Clark Hubbard and Lydia George, and with them he had a total of fifteen children. Mather was a well respected member of the puritan community, and that made it easy for him to persuade many into believing his writings ...

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... -Orangist Rotterdam group of English exiles, which included Gilbert Burnet, Charles Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, and Charles Mordaunt, earl of Monmouth, as well as with the New England Divines Cotton and Increase Mather. In the New World, Leisler catapulted to fame in 1689 when, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution, he assumed the role of King William III's governor of New ... -Orangist Rotterdam group of English exiles, which included Gilbert Burnet, Charles Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, and Charles Mordaunt, earl of Monmouth, as well as with the New England Divines Cotton and Incre...

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... stress, asthma, guilt, child abuse, and epilepsy. However, in a traditionally run New England colony, other "theories- leaked out as to what caused Betty's behavior. At the same time, Boston minister Cotton Mather published a book, Memorable Provinces, which mentioned a woman with similar symptoms like Betty. The friends of Betty; Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, also began to show symptoms of bewitchment ... ...

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