Robert Calef
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Robert Calef was a cloth merchant in colonial Boston. He was the author of More Wonders of the Invisible World, a book composed throughout the mid-1690s denouncing the recent Salem witch trials of 169
Grave of Robert Calef in Roxbury
Cotton Mather's anonymous Life of Phips
Calef's book, like Mather's before, printed at the Princes-Arms, in London
More Wonders of the Invisible World
Increase Mather
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Increase Mather was a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the sixth president of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701. During his tenure, which coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials, he
Robert Calef
…Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches, Lately Executed in New-England, in the summer and early fall of 1692, and his father Increase Mather published his own Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits around the same time. Robert Calef, after exchanging letters with Cotton Mather and many…
Portrait, 1680
The house Mather built in 1677 near the north corner of Hanover and North Bennet Streets in Boston, pictured here in 1898, survived into the 20th century.
1688 portrait of Mather by Joan van der Spriet
The Mather tomb in Copp's Hill Burying Ground