. The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits. ergymen abroad, andIncrease, president of Harvard College, was the father ofCotton Mather, preacher, antiquarian, and diarist. Mrs. 419 Mather died In February, 1655, and he married the widowof the famous John Cotton. His Influence and wisdom were shown at the synod,called In 1648 to combat Presbyterianlsm, when his planfor congregational polity was adopted. His portrait Is In the American Antiquarian Society
. The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits. ergymen abroad, andIncrease, president of Harvard College, was the father ofCotton Mather, preacher, antiquarian, and diarist. Mrs. 419 Mather died In February, 1655, and he married the widowof the famous John Cotton. His Influence and wisdom were shown at the synod,called In 1648 to combat Presbyterianlsm, when his planfor congregational polity was adopted. His portrait Is In the American Antiquarian Society atWorcester, and as Bentley says, It agrees as well as pos-sible with an engraving by John Foster, which was usedin the life issued in 1670. He was the author of severalpublications, and when a committee was appointed in 1639to prepare a metrical translation of the Psalms, Matherwas admonished by Mr. Shepard, of Cambridge, in thesew^ords: And you of Dorchester, your verses lengthen;But with the texts own words you will them strengthen. Chronicles of the First Planters, by Alexander Young. Boston, 1846. Athenae Oxonienses, by Anthony a Wood. London, 1817, Aolume 3, column 832. 420. RICHARD MATHER1596-1669 (4--0 THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRAE^ ASTOR, LEV • Fr-:i - Richard Middlecott, merchant, was born probably atBoston, England, where Sir Thomas Middlecott had beenmayor and was a benefactor, or at Warminster, CountyWilts, where the family was prominent. Richard was ap-prenticed to a merchant in Bristol, and, then or later,obtained a knowledge of law. His first wifes name isunknown, but he came over to New England about 1670,with his son Edward. In 1672 he married Sarah, daughterof John Winslow and niece of Governor Edward had already had two husbands, Myles Standish, 2d, andTobias Paine. By Mr. Middlecott she had Mary, born in1674, and married to Henry Gibbs in 1695; Sarah, bornin 1678 ; and Jane, who married, in 1702, Elisha Cooke, Jr. Middlecott began, very soon
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