MATHER, Reverand Samuel

1651 - 1727  (75 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	MATHER, Samuel
  Prefix	Reverand
  Birth	5 Jul 1651	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
  Christening	7 Sep 1651	Dorchester, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Burial	1727	Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
  Death	18 Mar 1727	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
  WAC	2 Oct 1929
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  Person ID	I22577	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	TREAT, Hannah ,   b. 1 Jan 1659, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial Americad. 8 Mar 1707, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	1692	Connecticut
  Family ID	F12187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Here lyeth Buryed ye Rev'D MR Sam'll Mather, Pastor of ye Church of Christ in Windsor, who dyed March ye 18th Anno Domini 1727-8. AEtatis Sui 77. Note: Rev. Samuel Mather was the son of Timothy Mather, Esq., and grandson of Rev. Richard Mather, of Dorchester. He was graduated at Harvard College 1671, and went from Branford to Windsor 1681, where he united the two societies which for 13 years previous has been under the pastoral charge of Messrs. Woodbridge and Chauncey, the sucessors of Mr. Warham. He married Hannah (Treat), the daughter of Hon. Robert Treat, of Milford, Gov'r of the Colony of Connecticut. He was father of Dr. Samuel Mather, who died in Windsor Feb'r 6, 1745 and of Rev. Azariah Mather, who died at Seabrooke, AD 1737. Samuel Mather Mather, Samuel (1706–85),son of Cotton Mather, was graduated from Harvard (1723) and the following year began preaching. He married a sister of Thomas Hutchinson, and in 1732 became pastor of the Second Church in Boston. Charges that are now uncertain caused him to be dismissed (1741), and more than 90 of his congregation withdrew with him to found a new church, which he ministered until his death. His writings include some 20 books, marked by erudition rather than intellectual strength or style. Among them were a Life of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather (1729), Attempt To Shew That America Must Be Known to the Ancients (1773), and the poem The Sacred Minister (1773). The last of the “Mather Dynasty,” he appears to have been an unsuccessful preacher with little public influence. A contemporary said that “though a treasury of valuable historical anecdotes,” he was “as weak a man as I ever knew.” Mather, Samuel The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger | Copyright DIV#populate_ad_textupper_alongsidetextad SPAN.desc { DISPLAY: block } DIV#populate_ad_textupper_alongsidetextad A SPAN.url { COLOR: #008000 } DIV#populate_ad_textupper_alongsidetextad IFRAME { BORDER-BOTTOM: #ddd 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ddd 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px 17px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; WIDTH: 233px; PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; HEIGHT: 260px !important; BORDER-TOP: #ddd 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ddd 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px; border-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; -o-border-radius: 5px } #populate_ad_textupper { BORDER-BOTTOM: #ddd 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ddd 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px 17px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; WIDTH: 233px; PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; HEIGHT: 260px !important; BORDER-TOP: #ddd 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ddd 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px; border-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; -o-border-radius: 5px } "Reverend, Dr. Samuel Mather visited Europe when a young man, but I have no knowledge of his travels in that country. He probably visited his uncle, Rev Samuel Mather, who was a preacher in Witney Oxfordshire. At the age of 13 he entered harvard College and graduated in 1723 at age 17. He probably studied Theology under the direction of his father... it was said he soon obtained a good reputation. In 1732 he was chosen as a colleague with the Rev. Mr. Gee of the second church Boston... his father Cotton, grandfather Increase, and his great Uncle Samuel were previous before him. He remained with this connection for nine years. There was some division in the church and Mr. Mather, by mutual agreement and consent, separated with a part of the church and a house of worship was erected for them in North Bennett Street. With this people, Mr. Mather continued until his death in 1785."