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Pirates & Privateers: Cotton Mather, Preacher to the Pirates Anne Hutchinson, Cotton Mather, Oxford English Dictionary, Boston History, Oxford English, Salem Witch Trials, The Grim Reaper, Last Breath, Ancestry Dna

Several years ago, I read Marcus Rediker's Villains of All Nations. Imagine my surprise when I came across the Reverend Cotton Mather's name in the first paragraph. Not once in any history classes did my teachers mention pirates while speaking about this New England Puritan! What else had my instructors omitted about this man, who preached to and about pirates?

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Klarion The Witch Boy, Cotton Mather, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Historical Nonfiction, Witch History, Library Posters, Salem Witch Trials, Moon Journal, Witch Trials

Download this stock image: Title page of Cotton Mather's book Wonders of the Invisible World 1693. Woodcut with a watercolor wash - B8EC2H from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

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Cotton Mather, Massachusetts Bay Colony, The Salem Witch Trials, Worcester Massachusetts, Salem Witch Trials, Witch Trials, Salem Witch, Long Stories, Long Story

The Salem witch trials (1692–93) were a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted ‘witches’ to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They were part of a long story of witch hunts that began in Europe in the 14th century.

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