The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (188 page)

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Authors: Robert Middlekauff

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court created to hear cases against witches, 151;
trials, 151-53;
use of spectral evidence in, 153-54;
action of Increase Mather and ministers in, 154-56;
medical and scientific opinion in, 156-57;
Increase Mather reflects on, 158-59;
Cotton Mather ponders, 159-60;
John Hale on, 161.
See also
, Mather, Increase; Spectral Evidence.
Sampson, Thomas, 37
Schism Bill, 224
Scot, Reginald, 146
Second Church (Old North), 85, 88, 204, 363;
congregation of, 162

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