The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather, 1639–1723

List of Illustrations

List of Illustrations Increase Mather. Oil painting byJan van der Spriett Birthplace in Lancashire, England, of Richard Mather, Increase Mather's father Richard Mather. Oil painting by an unknown artist Richard Mather, 1670, woodcut byJohn Foster John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts BayColony Portrait assumed to be ofJohn Cotton, leader of Massachusetts Congregationalism Title page of "A Platform of Church Discipline," of the Synod of 1649 Harvard College in 1638 Old College, Harvard, built in 1639 The Library in Old College, Harvard Map of Boston and southern New England in 1635 Map of Boston's streets and buildings around 1645 Boston's first town house Portrait, possibly of Charles Chauncy, president of Harvard and opponent of half-way covenant John Davenport, senior minister of New Haven and critic of half-way covenant The Life and Death of that Reverend Man of God, Mr. Richard Mather, by Increase Mather Wo toDrunkards, two sermons by Increase Mather The Day of Trouble is near, a jeremiad by Increase Mather Several Laws and Orders, issued by General Court in 1675, including "Provoking Evils" John Leverett, governor of Massachusetts during King Philip'sWar An Earnest Exhortation, by Increase Mather on King Philip's War A Brief History of the War with the Indians, by IncreaseMather 7 8 9 18 19 23 32 33 33 37 3« 39 56 57 86 IOO IOI no III 120 121 frontispiece [x List of Illustrations First page of gospel of Matthew, from John Eliot's Algonquian Bible Seal of Massachusetts Bay Colony Printing press used by Isaiah Thomas The First Principles ofNeu'-England, by Increase Mather The Synod of 1679 Page from Increase Mather's diary, September, 1680 "The Copernican System," from John Foster's almanac, 1681 Map of Boston and New England in 1677, woodcut byJohn Foster Headstone for the grave ofJohn Foster Increase Mather's Kometographia. Or a Discourse Concerning Comets An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, by Increase Mather A Sermon Occasioned by the Execution of a Man found Guilty of Murder, by Increase Mather "Bird's-eye View of Harvard and Cambridge in 1668" New College, Harvard, built in 1676 Sir Edmund Andros, governor of Dominion of New England from 1686 to 1689 1688 broadside warning of Dutch invasion of England Proclamation urging Andros to "Surrender and Deliver up the Government," April 18, 1689 Joseph Dudley, governor of Massachusetts from 1702 to 1715 1689 newsletter on "New-England Affairs" Elisha Cooke, Boston physician, and official agent of the colony in England John Bleau's map of London and Middlesex County, England, 1654, where Mather lived from 1688 to 1692 "A Plan of London, Westminster, and Southwark north of ye River Thames" about 1600 Map of London in the early eighteenth century William Stoughton, deputy governor from 1692 to 1701, chief justiceat the Salem witchcraft trial of Bridget Bishop Cotton Mather's A FurtherAccount of the Tryals of the New-England Witches published with Increase Mather's Cases of Conscience The Wonders of the Invisible World, by Cotton Mather The Mystery of Israel's Salvation, by Increase Mather on the conversion of the Jews Increase Mather's DissertationConcerning the Future Conversion of the Jewish Nation Harvard College Quaestiones for 1695 graduating class under Increase Mather's presidency Benjamin Colman, minister of Boston's Brattle Street Church 132 133 134 144 145 157 162 163 164 168 169 196 200 201 208 209 226 227 234 235 243 244 2 45 257 2 259 2 277 2 9 4 295 List of Illustrations xi] Samuel Willard, minister of South Church and acting president of Harvard after Increase Mather The Character of a Good Ruler, 1694 election day sermon by Samuel Willard Increase Mathers sermons, Ichabod Harvard College Quaestiones for 1717 graduating class under the presidency ofJohn Leverett Harvard College, 1726 1708 broadside naming and bounding the streets, lanes, and alleys of Boston Samuel Sewall, merchant, bookseller, and judge Samuel Sewall's shipping manifest of November, 1687 Old Feather Store in Dock Square King's Head Tavern, corner of Fleet and North streets 1683 notice offering 40 shillings for finding runawayslave John Bonner's map of Boston Boston's North End, detail from John Bonners map Boston's North End, about 1750 Increase Mather's house as it was in nineteenth century Samuel Mather, Increase Mather's younger son Increase Mather's essay defending inoculation for small pox Engraving of Increase Mather after painting...