Increase Mather

by Mason I. Lowance Jr.

This 'Twayne' literary survey is of the oeuvre of New England's Increase Mather (June 21, 1639 O.S. – August 23, 1723 O.S.), a public figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts). He was a Puritan minister involved with the government of the colony, the administration of Harvard College, and most notoriously, the Salem witch trials. He was the son of Richard Mather, and the father of Cotton Mather, both influential Puritan ministers.

185 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974