Increase Mather
Puritan minister
Died when: 84 years 63 days (1010 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Increase Mather (/'mæð?r/; June 21, 1639 Old Style – August 23, 1723 Old Style) was a New England Puritan 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.
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