increase & cotton mather salem witch trials by:ryan caprio
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Increase & Cotton Mather
Salem Witch TrialsBy:Ryan Caprio
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Increase Mather: Birth and Death
• Increase Mather was born June 21, 1639 in Dorchester, Massachusetts
• Died August 23, 1723, and was buried in Copps Hill Burial ground, Boston MA
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Increase Mather's Childhood/Family Life
• Increase was admitted into Harvard at the age of twelve
• He did not have much of a childhood because he was getting educated most of his life as a minister
• He married in 1662 to Maria Cotton, then married Ann Lake in 1715 a year after his first wifes death
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Education
• Was admitted to Harvard at the age of twelve
• Later he went to Trinity college, Dublin
• Got his degree at age nineteen
• Came back to New England and served as a minister of Boston's North Church which became his career
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Religious Practice/Career
• He was a puritan
• He was also a minister of the North Church in Boston
• opposed anything that openly contradicted or distracted him from his religious beliefs
• He also became the president of Harvard
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Involvement in Salem Witch Trials
• He believed that the witches should not of been accused, He argued that it would be better to let ten witches go free than the blood of a single innocent be shed
• Increase did realize that innocent blood was being shed.
• Although Increase was one of the few ministers to associate sexual activity with witchcraft.
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Cotton Mather Birth and Death
• Born February 12, 1663 in Boston Massachusetts
• Died February 13, 1728 in boston MA. buried in Copps Hill Burial ground, Boston MA
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Cotton's Childhood and Family life
• He also entered Harvard at twelve like his father, to become a minister
• He became a minister of the same church his father was minister of and he became the minister at age twenty-five and ministered the rest of his life.
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Education
• Went to Harvard at age twelve
• Graduated Harvard at age fifteen
• Started to read the bible at a very young age
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Religious Practices
• Believed that philosophy and science could work together with religion instead of against it
• He was a puritan minister of the North Church of Boston, like his father Increase Mather
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Involvement in Salem Witch Trials
• Mather's most fatal influence over the trials was in composing the answer to the question of whether or not to allow Spectral evidence
• Mather claims he did not attend the trials in Salem
• viewed as one of the most influential Puritan ministers of his day
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Work Cited"Increase Mather." Increase Mather. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mather/Mather/Increase.shtml>.
"Increase Mather." Salem Witch Trials:. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/salem/people/i_mather.html>.