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The Reverend Cotton Mather, late 17th or early 18th century (c1880). The son of a Puritan minister, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather (1663-1728) followed his father into the church. A prolific author and pamphleteer, he was one of the most influential figures in the American colonies. Mather was also involved in the notorious Salem Witch Trials. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume I, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.