Diary of Cotton Mather, 1681-1724

Diary of Cotton Mather, 1681-1724

V pfji:sii>H:NT WHITE LiBRAnv, TORN E LL UN IVERSITY. l\.'2.U-h\C>^ Digitized by Microsoft® COtmCU. UMIVCIWITY LiBRAHY „ III 3 1924 092 202 500 Digitized by Microsoft® This book was digitized by Microsoft Corporation in cooperation witli Cornell University Libraries, 2007. You may use and print this copy in limited quantity for your personal purposes, but may not distribute or provide access to it (or modified or partial versions of it) for revenue-generating or other commercial purposes. Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® COLLECTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY Digitized by Microsoft® Committee of |)nblitatian CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS NATHANIEL PAINE BARRETT WENDELL WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY FORD Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® > /, 1'" ',".'.'/,' • 1 '( //>/:t VVAV.V ,v//„ ,yunf(. i'. 7//// ^ ^ •r»rY/ ^ ,Vf.->4/n*/ >«',.».>' Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® 9@as0act)U0ett0 l^lstotical ^odetp Collectton0 SEVENTH SERIES — VOL. VII DIARY OF COTTON MATHER 1681-1708 Pnblisbtli at t\)t <Liixst of t\)t ptaboUp JunO BOSTON PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY MDCCCCXI Digitized by Microsoft® TBX-PLIUPTON-PHESS (W-DO) NonwooD -MAsa- v -b-a Digitized by Microsoft® CONTENTS PAGE Officers of the Society, April, 1911 vii Members: Resident viii Honorary x Corresponding x Preface xiii Location of Manuscript Diaries xxiii Diary, 1681 i 1683 ; 54 168s 86 1686 121 Letters. 1690, May 17. To Increase Mather 137 On his return to New England. Agents appointed. In- gratitude for services. His own position. 1691, September 14. To John Cotton 140 The king and the charter. Forgery of a clerk. Plymouth as a province. Magistrates. 1692, August 5. To John Cotton 142 Execution of witches at Salem. The earthquake at Jamaica. Trouble at Taunton. Diary, 1691 xxv 1692 144 1693 160 1696 182 1697 221 1698 252 1699 292 1700 335 1701 393 1702 418 1703 466 [v] Digitized by Microsoft® VI CONTEwib Letter. ^^'^'^ 1704, December 4. To Samuel Penhallow 507 Grateful for his communication. Illness of his daughter Catharine. Colonel Hobby and the governorship. Diary, 1705 509 1706 545 1707 593 Letters. 1707, March 6. To Samuel Penhallow 598 Books sent by a captive woman. Encloses some state paper. 1707, July 8. To Samuel Penhallow 599 News from England. Some proceedings against traders resented. Francis Makemie. 1707. Esquire BickerstafT's Predictions for 1 708 .... 600 1708, September 21. To 602 Question on baptism. 1708, November 22. To Samuel Penhallow 603 Sends copies of Good Evening. Efiect of his name. ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of Cotton Mather, after Peter Pelham Frontispiece. Page of the Diary, to face page i Digitized by Microsoft® OFFICERS OF THE ^lASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY Aprtl 13, igii. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS Lincoln. SitC'PrtsiHenttf SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN Boston. JAMES FORD RHODES Boston. Betorlitng: S>rtretarp EDWARD STANWOOD Brookune. Corrtspontiins S)ecretarp HENRY Wn.LL\MSON HAVNES Boston. CTrtaBurer ARTHXHi LORD Plymouth. Librarian SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN Boston. Cabtntt'tltrprr GRENVTLLE ROWLAND NORCROSS Boston. (Suitor WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY FORD Cambridge. fRtmhns at Large of tbe Conntil WALDO LINCOLN Worcester. WILLIAM ROSCOE LR'ERMORE Boston. FREDERIC WINTHROP Hamilton. MOORFIELD STOREY Boston. ROBERT SAMUEL RANTOUL Salem. [vii] Digitized by Microsoft® RESIDENT MEMBERS i860. Frederic Ward Putnam, S.D. Hon. Samuel Abbott Green, LL.D. James McKellar Bugbee, Esq. 1884. 1867. Edward Channing, Ph.D. Charles Card Sniith, A.M. 1886. 1871. WiUiam Watson Goodwin, D.C.L. Abner Cheney Goodell, A.M. 1887. 1873- Edwin Pliny Seaver, .\.M. Hon. Winslow Warren, LL.B. 1889. Charles WiUiam Eliot, LL.D. Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D. Thornton KlrUand Lothrop, LL.B. 1875. Charles Francis Adams, LL.D. 1890. Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, A.M. 1876. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, LL.D. Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, LL.D. 1891. 1877. Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, LL.D. John Torrey Morse, Jr., A.B. Henry Pickering Walcott, LL.D. 1878. 1893- Gamaliel Bradford, A.B. Hon. Charles Russell Codman, LL.B. Barrett Wendell, .\.B. 1879. James Ford Rhodes, LL.D. Henry Williamson Haynes, A.M. 1894. Hon. Mward Francis Johnson, LL.B. 1880. Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, LL. D. William Roscoe Thayer, AJkl. 1881. 189s. Rev. Henry Fitch Jcnks, A.M. Hon. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, LL.D. Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D. Hon. William Wallace Crapo, LL.D. 1883. 1896. Arthur Lord, A.B. Granville Stanley Hall, LL.D. [ viii ] Digitized by Microsoft® RESIDENT MEMBERS IX 1897. 1905. Rev. Leverett Wilson Spring, D.D. Hon. John Davis Long, LL.D. Col. William Roscoe Livennore. Don Gleason HUl, A.M. Hon. Richard OIney, IX.D. Theodore Clarke Smith, Ph.D. Lucien Carr, A.M. Henry Greenleaf Pearson, A.B. Bliss Perry, LL.D. Rev. George Angier Gordon, D.D. 1906. Gray, John Chipman LL.D. Edwin Doak Mead, Esq. Rev. James DeNormandie, D.D. Edward Henry Clement, Litt.D. Davis, Andrew McFarland A.M. William Endicott, A.M. Lindsay Swift, A.B. 1899. Hon. George Sheldon. Archibald Gary Coolidge, Ph.D. Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, A.M. Charles Pickering Bowditch, A.M. Arnold Augustus Rand, Esq. Rev. Edward Henry HaU, D.D. 1907. 1900. Jonathan Smith, A.B. Melville Madison Bigelow, LL.D. Albert Matthews, A.B. William Vail KeUen, LL.D. 1901. Thomas Leonard Livermore, A.M. 1908. Nathaniel Paine, A.M. Frederic WInthrop, A.B. John Osborne Sumner, A.B. Hon. Robert Samuel Rantoul, LL.B. Arthur Theodore Lyman, A.M. Samuel Lothrop Thomdike, A.M. George Lyman Kittredge, LL.D. Charles Pelham Greenough, LL.B. Henry Ernest Woods, A.M. 1903. Henry Lee Higginson, LL.D. Brooks Adams, A.B. 1909. Grenville Howland Norcross, LL.B. Worthington Chauncey Ford, A.M. Edward Hooker Gilbert, A.B. William Coolidge Lane, A.B. 1903- 1910. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, .\.B. Hon. Samuel Walker McCaU, A.B. Charles Knowles Bolton, A.B. John Collins Warren, LL.D. Samuel Savage Shaw, LL.B. Harold Murdock, Esq. Ephraim Emerton, Ph.D. Henry Morton Levering, A.M. Waldo Lincoln, A.B. Edward Waldo Emerson, M.D. Frederic Jesup Stimson, LL.B. Curtis Guild, LL.D. Edward Stanwood, Litt.D. Frederick Jackson Turner, Litt.D. Moorfield Storey, A.M. Gardner Weld AUen, M.D. 1904. Thomas Minns, Esq. 1911. Roger Bigelow Merriman, Ph.D. Henry Herbert Edes, A.M. Charles Homer Haskins, Ph.D. George Hubbard Blakeslee, Ph.D. Digitized by Microsoft® HONORARY MEMBERS 1896. 1905. Rt. Hon. James Bryce, D.C.L. Ernest Lavisse. 1907. 1899. Rear-Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, Rt. Hon. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, D.C.L. Bart., D.C.L. 1908. 1901. Henry Adams, LL.D. Pasquale Villari, D.C.L. 1910. Eduard Meyer, Litt.D. 1904. Adolf Hamack, D.D. 1911. Rt. Hon. Viscount Morley, D.C.L. Hon. Andrew Dickson White, D.C.L. CORRESPONDING MEMBERS 1875. 1897. Hon. John Bigelow, LL.D. Woodrow Wilson, LL.D. Hubert Howe Bancroft, A.M. Hon. Joseph Hodges Choate, D.C.L. 1878. 1898. Florimond Loubat, LL.D. Joseph John Franklin Jameson, LL.D. Charles Henry Hart, LL.B. 1899. 1879. Rev. William Cunningham, LL.D. Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Litt.D. 1880. 1900. Sir James MacPherson LeMoine, Hon. Simeon F.ben Baldwin, LL.D. D.C.L. John Hassett Moore, LL.D. 1883. Rev. Charles Richmond Weld, LL.D. 1901. Frederic Harrison, Litt.D. 1896. Frederic Hancroft, LL.D. Hon. James Burrill Angel), LL.D. Charles Harding Firth, LL.D. William Babcock Wecden, A.M. William James Ashley, M.A. Ixl Digitized by Microsoft® CORRESPONDING MEMBERS XI 1902. 1907. John Bach McMaster, LL.D. Hon. James Phinney Baxter, Litt.D. Albert Venn Dicey, LL.D. W'ilberforce Eames, A.M. Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D. George Walter Prothero, LL.D. John Christopher Schwab, Ph.D. Hon. Jean Jules Jusserand, LL.D. James Kendall Hosmer, LL.D. 1903- Rev. .-\rthur Blake Ellis, LL.B. 1908. Auguste iloireau. John Bagnell Bury, LL.D. Hon. Horace Davis, LL.D. Rafael Altamira y Crevea. Hon. James Wilberforce Longley, igo4. D.C.L. Henr>- Morse Stephens, LittD. Sidney Lee, LL.D. Charles Borgeaud, LL.D. 1905. 1909. William .\rchibald Dunning, LL.D. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL.D. James Schouler, LL.D. Clarence Bloomfield Moore, A.B. George Parker Winship, A.M. Gabriel Hanotaux. Hubert HaU. 1910. Edward Doubleday Harris, Esq. 1906. Andrew Cimningham McLaughlin, igii. LL.B. Charles William Chadwick Oman. M.A. Hon. Beekman Winthrop, LL.B. Samuel Verplanck HoEfman, Esq. Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® PREFACE Diary THE of Cotton Mather is of value as the record of a man of peculiar attainments, as a bibliog- raphy of a very prolific compiler and publisher, and, most of all, as an important contribution to the history of the Congregational Church in Massachusetts. For he was only a tjrpe, one of many, made prominent by the large number of his printed writings, some of which have served to keep him in the public eye even to this day. The existence of this record, scattered in three different collections, has long been known, and much inquiry has arisen about its contents. Mr. Wendell used a part in his scholarly biography of Cotton Mather,' and extracts have appeared in many places; but no year's record has ever been transcribed or printed. In April, 1908, Mr. Henry H. Edes proposed to the Council of the American Antiquarian Society to confer with the Coimcil of this Society "with a view of securing the proper editing and publication of all the manuscript diaries of Increase Mather and Cotton Mather. "^ In February, 1909, the Massachusetts Historical Society appointed a commit- tee to publish the diaries in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society, and invited the latter Society to aid. Circumstanced as it was, the Antiquarian Society could •not take an active part in the editing and publication, but freely offered such material as it had, and named a committee of conference composed of Andrew McFarland Davis, George Parker Winship, and Clarence Saunders Brigham.' ' Cotton Mather, the Puritan Priest.

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