Increase Mather (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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21 June 1639 Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America
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23 August 1723 (aged 84) Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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