Magnalia Christi Americana, London, 1702
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Cotton Mather, minister at the North Church in Boston, published "Magnalia Christi Americana: or the Ecclesiatical History of New-England, from Its first planting in the year, 1620. until the Year of Our Lord, 1698,' in 1702.
Chapter VII is entitled "The Wars of the Lord" and Mather includes a discussion of witches and Indians in New England.
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- Title: Magnalia Christi Americana, London, 1702
- Creator: Thomas Parkhurst, London
- Creation Date: 1702
- Subject Date: 1702
- Town: Boston
- County: Suffolk
- State: MA
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions (cm): 31.5 x 21
- Local Code: QJ 277.3 M242
- Object Type: Text
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Witchcraft--United States--New England
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Indians of North America--New England
Witchcraft--New England
Witches--New England
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
New England--Church history
New England--Biography
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