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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 4 4 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
n 1678, he studied theology and became minister of the North Church in Boston. He was one of the leaders in the movement against witchcraft, and in justification of his attitude wrote The Wonders of the invisible world (1692). He also published, among many volumes, Memorable Providences relating to witchcraft And possessions (1685); Essays to do good (1710); but is best known by his Magnalia Christi Americana; or, the Ecclesiastical history of New England (1702). Died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 13, 1728. Motley, John Lothrop Born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814. Graduating at Harvard in 1831, he studied at Gottingen, and occupied several public positions abroad. He published Morton's hope, a novel, in 1839, and Merry Mount, a romance of the Massachusetts Colony in 1849. His first historical essay on Peter the Great came out in the North American Review for 1845. The rise of the Dutch Republic was published in three volumes (1856), two volumes of The history of the United N