“Address yourself to the task of keeping a journal.”

About Cotton Mather

Author • American

Cotton Mather was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he was the son of minister Increase Mather and followed his...

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