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Samuel Mather was the son of Cotton Mather and his second wife, Elizabeth (Clark). He was born on October 30, 1706 in Boston.
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Samuel Mather was the son of Cotton Mather and his second wife, Elizabeth (Clark). He was born on October 30, 1706 in Boston.
Samuel Mather attended the North Grammar School, and received the degree of A. B. from Harvard in 1723. During his college course he was granted financial aid from the gifts of Nathaniel Hulton and Thomas Hollis, which his grandfather had helped to obtain for the college.
In August 1724 he began preaching at Castle William, where he remained chaplain till 1732. In October 1724 he delivered a sermon at the Second Church of Boston, where his father was minister. He became an assistant to the Rev. Joshua Gee at the Second Church in 1731 and on January 28, 1732, was chosen pastor by sixty-nine out of one hundred and twelve votes. By 1741 some of Mather's flock challenged his doctrines and accused him of improper conduct. An ecclesiastical council called to investigate the charges failed to effect a reconciliation, and on December 12, 1741, the church dismissed Mather with one year's salary. Ninety-three of his congregation withdrew with him and established a new church, where he ministered until his death. The charges against him do not seem to have seriously damaged his reputation in the community, and are not precisely defined. An enemy in 1773 wrote of "the fair Daughters of Liberty on whose account you have already suffered a dire flogging at an ecclesiastical council, " but this is insecure evidence, even if it refers to the affair of 1741.
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His Life of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather (1729) is a useful though unsatisfactory biography. His Attempt to Shew That America Must Be Known to the Ancients (1773) reflects his patriotic views. He wrote verse, and his poem, The Sacred Minister, was printed by itself in 1773. His eldest son, Samuel, became a Loyalist and left Boston; Thomas, the second son, died in 1782; and Increase, a third, was lost at sea. Samuel Mather was, therefore, the last of the "Mather dynasty" in the Boston pulpit. Respected, apparently, as a scholar, minister, and owner of a great library of books and manuscripts, he had neither wide public influence nor as great power as his ancestors or many of his contemporaries. He was not a successful preacher, and late in life he is said to have had "an audience of not more than twenty or thirty. " His enemies twitted him with "an itch of writing" and ambition to be president of Harvard. Against this must be weighed the recognition of his talents shown in an honorary degree of D. D. from Harvard in 1773, of M. A. from Glasgow in 1731, and of D. D. from Aberdeen in 1762. In his will he asked that there be no "funeral encomiums" for him, and that only one bell be tolled for five minutes, lest, as he said, "sick and infirm persons should be disturbed . .. at the carrying of the body of my humiliation to the silent grave. "
Quotes from others about the person
"Though a treasury of valuable historical anecdotes, he was as weak a man as I ever knew".
On August 23, 1733, he married Hannah Hutchinson, sister of Thomas, later royal governor of Massachusetts.