Rev. Richard Mather

1596 - 1669  (73 years)

• Name	Richard Mather  [1, 2, 3]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	1596	Lowton, Winwick, Lancashire, England   [4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Apr 1669	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 8]
  Person ID	I27008	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas Mather,   b. of Lowton, Winwick, Lancashire, England
  Mother	Margaret Abraham
  Marriage	30 Sep 1591	Warrington, Cheshire, England   [9]
  Family ID	F16132	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Holt   d. 1655
  Marriage	29 Sep 1624	Bury, Lancashire, England   [5, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Timothy Mather,   b. 1628, Liverpool, Lancashire, England d. 14 Jan 1684, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 56 years) + 2. Increase Mather,   b. 21 Jun 1639, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 23 Aug 1723, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F16130	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah Hawkredd,   b. Abt 1601   d. 27 May 1676 (Age ~ 75 years)
  Marriage	26 Aug 1656	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 3, 5]
  Family ID	F16139	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated 1635 on the James out of Bristol. Minister for decades at Dorchester, from 1662 he shared those duties with William Stoughton. A biographical sketch of him can be found in his grandson Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana.

  
  

• Sources

  [S843] John Anderson Brayton, "Additions to the Ancestry of Sarah (Hawkredd) (Story) (Cotton) Mather of Boston, Lincolnshire." The Genealogist 21:108, Spring 2007; 21:191, Fall 2007. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S7903] Robert Charles Anderson, "John Cotton." Great Migration Newsletter volume 25, number 3, Jul-Sep 2016. [S3705] Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather by Horace E. Mather. Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1890. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S545] Magnalia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of New England by Cotton Mather. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. [S2906] Puritans and Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018. [S2906] Puritans and Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018., year only. [S3706] William Ferguson Irvine, "The Parents of Rev. Richard Mather." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 54:348, 1900.