Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mather” in chapter 3 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:

...f Mather's fellow-townsman Judge Samuel Sewall has been read more generally in recent years than anything written by Mather himself. It was begun in 1673, nine years earlier than the first entry in Mather 's , and it ends in 1729, while Mather's closes in 1724. As a picture of everyday happenings in New England, Sewall's as far superior to Mather's as Pepys's is to George Fox's in painting the En...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
† Richard Mather 112 30 4 0 0 user votes
Increase Mather 168 6 16 0 0 user votes
Cotton Mather 157 4 11 0 0 user votes
Mather 142 0 18 0 0 user votes
C. Mather 102 0 0 0 0 user votes
I. Mather 54 0 0 0 0 user votes
Andrew E. Mather 27 0 3 0 0 user votes
S. W. Mather 16 0 2 0 0 user votes
Thomas Mather 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
Samuel Mather 10 0 0 0 0 user votes
Elias C. Mather 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
Nathaniel Mather 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
W. W. Mather 5 0 1 0 0 user votes
Joseph Mather 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
M. W. Mather 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Mary Mather 4 0 2 0 0 user votes
William Loomis Mather 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Frederick Mather 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
H. M. Mather 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
H. W. Mather 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Samuel T. Mather 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
T. S. Mather 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. T. W. Mather 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Calista Mather 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Frederick W. Mather 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Iverson Mather 1 0 1 0 0 user votes

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