Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was the son of Increase Mather and an eminent Puritan minister and prolific writer, author of "Magnalia Christi Americana" and "Wonders of the Invisible World," about the witchcraft in Salem. Co-minister with and successor to his father as minister of the Second Church of Boston. He was the first cousin of Eunice Mather Williams.