Rev. Richard Mather

1596 - 1669  (73 years)

• Name	Richard Mather  [1, 2]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	1596	Lowton, Winwick, Lancashire, England   [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Apr 1669	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 7]
  Person ID	I27008	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas Mather,   b. of Lowton, Winwick, Lancashire, England
  Mother	Margaret Abraham
  Marriage	30 Sep 1591	Warrington, Cheshire, England   [8]
  Family ID	F16132	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Holt   d. 1655
  Marriage	29 Sep 1624	Bury, Lancashire, England   [4, 6]
  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, 4]
  Family ID	F16139	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2020

  
  

• 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. [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.