Person:Samuel Mather (14)

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  1. Rev. Samuel Mather1706 - 1785
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Name[1] Rev. Samuel Mather
Gender Male
Birth[1] 30 Oct 1706 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Degree[1] 1723 Harvard College.
Death[2] 27 Jun 1785 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cotton Mather, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    3:172.

    … Rev. Samuel, b. 30 Oct. bapt. 3 Nov. 1706, H. C. 1723, attained no humble share of celebrity …

  2. Samuel Mather, D.D., in Weis, Frederick Lewis. The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England. (Lancaster, Massachusetts: The Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1936)
    137.

    Samuel Mather, D.D., b. Boston, Oct. 30, 1706, son of Rev. Dr. Cotton and Elizabeth (Clark) Mather; H. C, 1723, A.B., A.M.; S.T.D., 1773; A.M., (Hon.), Y. C, 1725; Glasgow, 1731; Fellow Am. Acad. Arts and Sciences; Ord. Boston, (2nd Chh.), June 21, 1732; sett. Boston, (2nd Chh.), 1732-1741; dism. Dec. 21, 1741; inst. Boston, (10th Cong. Society), July 19, 1742; sett. Boston, (10th Cong. Soc), 1742-1785; Artillery Election Sermon, 1739; Convention Sermon, 1762; Dudleian Lecture, 1769; d. Boston, June 27, 1785, a. 79.