The Puritan minister had public duties also upon him. “ New England being a country,” said Cotton Mather, “ whose interests are remarkably enwrapped in theological circumstances, ...

Cotton Mather, a prominent Puritan minister from Boston during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, was the furthest thing from a science advocate. Deeply conservative, he argued in defense of ...

Three hundred years after Boston's colonists attacked Cotton Mather for his inoculation plan, doctors are working to develop a vaccine for coronavirus — an infection far less lethal than smallpox.

An ordained Puritan minister, Chapin was my ninth great-grandfather — a colonial transplant, born in England in 1598, who arrived in Boston as a 20-something, then headed west.

He was a devout Puritan minister who, like other Massachusetts Puritans, fled religious persecution in England. Upon his arrival in 1631 he was considered so godly that Boston Puritans had asked ...

This title page of a 1693 witch hunt pamphlet by Cotton Mather, a Puritan minister during the Salem witch trials, reflects the fear and fervor that fueled the persecution of alleged witches in ...

The Puritan minister had, to be sure, a great influence; but the influence was primarily due to his superior learning. And the entire discipline of the Puritans tended steadily toward raising the ...

In the fall of 1636, she accused Puritan ministers of making salvation dependent on an individual's good works rather than on divine grace, which was contrary to Puritan teaching. The ministers ...