Increase Mather
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- Date of birth
- 1639-06-21
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- United States
- Date of death
- 1723-08-23
- Place of death
- United States
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Increase Mather (; June 21 (O.S.), 1639 – August 23 (O.S.), 1723) was a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the sixth president of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701. During his tenure, which coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials, he was influential in the administration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was president of Harvard College for twenty years (1681–1701).Last modified: 2020-10-03 (revision #29143)
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- 2020-10-29