Background
Byles, Mather was born on March 26, 1707 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Josiah (or Josias) and Elizabeth (Mather) Greenough Byles.
Byles, Mather was born on March 26, 1707 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Josiah (or Josias) and Elizabeth (Mather) Greenough Byles.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1725, A.M., 1728. S.T.D. (honorary), University Aberdeen (Scotland).
Ordained to ministry Congregational Church 1732, minister Hollis Street Congregational Church, Boston, 1732-1776. Tory during Revolutionary War, let British troops use his church. Dismissed from pulpit by local patriots after evacuation of British.
Tried and banished from pulpit, banishment not enforced. Author: The Flourish of the Annual Spring, 1741. Poems on Several Occasions, 1744.
The Conflagration Applied to that Grand Period or Catastrophe of Our World, When the Face of Nature Is To Be Changed by a Deluge of Fire, As Formerly it Was by That of Water, The God of Tempest and Earthquakes, 1755.
Married Mistress;; married second, Rebecca Taller, 1747.
