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Calef wrote an account, also handed about in manuscript, of what had been said and done during a visitation of the Mathers to this afflicted damsel, an exposure of her imposture and their credulity, which so nettled Cotton Mather that he commenced a prosecution for slander against Calef, which, however, he soon saw reason to drop.
In order to obviate any further misfortune of this kind my friend Mathers, the honorary secretary of the Liberal Association, devised a plan under which the town was divided by the Liberals into different divisions.
"And you base your suspicions, do you not, upon the fact that he has queer eyes?" "Not entirely." "Upon what then?" "Upon the fact that he took part in the struggle which ended in my uncle's death." "Well, certainly, that does seem rather conclusive there is no mistake about the foot-prints?" "None whatever; the Mathers niggers both wore shoes, and anyway they didn't go into the cave."
Liberal influences, which were to oust the Mathers from control of Harvard College, were already gaining ground in Cambridge, while Boston had become the center of powerful material interests which were to prove incompatible with the rigid ideals of the founders. "The merchants seem to be rich men," writes Mr. Harris in 1675, "and their houses as handsomely furnished as most in London."
Nevertheless there have been raised up, now and then, those persons, who have rendered themselves worthy of everlasting remembrance, by their wakeful zeal to have the memorable providences of God remembered through all generations." These passages from the Mathers, father and son, embrace, in their bearings, a period, eleven years before and two years after the Delusion of 1692.
In that work, he speaks of the agreement of Stoughton's views with those of the Mathers; and, in connection with the witchcraft delusion, says that both of them "had an efficient agency in producing and prolonging that excitement."
Dorant who uttered these words as she stood in the doorway seemingly afraid to enter, fearing the visitor might turn out to be a ghost. "It is you, Mrs. Dorant," said Mrs. Mathers; "is my father upstairs?" "Yes, ma'am." "Is he ill?" "Yes, ma'am." "Dangerously?" "Not very; he does not want us to fetch the doctor. But what have you come here for? If Mr.
You love to lean on the free-stone slab which lies over the bones of the Mathers, to read the epitaph of stout John Clark, "despiser of little men and sorry actions," to stand by the stone grave of sturdy Daniel Malcom and look upon the splintered slab that tells the old rebel's story, to kneel by the triple stone that says how the three Worthylakes, father, mother, and young daughter, died on the same day and lie buried there; a mystery; the subject of a moving ballad, by the late BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, as may be seen in his autobiography, which will explain the secret of the triple gravestone; though the old philosopher has made a mistake, unless the stone is wrong.
Mathers, it seems, attended to lighting the fire?" "Yes, she and the Colonel made the fire and started the coffee." "Ah!" said Terry with a note of satisfaction in his voice. "The matter begins to clear. Was Colonel Gaylord in the habit of smoking?" "He smoked one cigar after every meal." "Never any more than that?" "No, the doctor had limited him.
The Mather Safe which, by the way, is not of iron, but of oak heavily bound with that metal is said to have been among the possessions of the author of the "Magnalia." Its last private proprietor was a collateral descendant of the Mathers, an eccentric character, popularly known as Miser Farrel.
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