of a church in London; Eleazar (1637–1669), who graduated at Harvard in 1656 and after preaching in Northampton, Massachusetts, for three years, became in 1661 pastor of the church there; father-in-law to the Rev. John Williams (New England minister) 1664-1729 (Harvard Class of 1683) of Deerfield Massachusetts; Increase who graduated at Harvard Class of 1656 (1639–1723) was a Puritan minister and a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts). Son-in-law to the Rev. John Cotton (minister); Father of the Rev. Cotton Mather (1663-1728) Harvard Class of 1678. Horace E. Mather, in his "Lineage of Richard Mather", (Hartford, Connecticut, 1890), gives a list of 80 clergymen descended from Richard Mather, of whom 29 bore the name Mather and 51 other names, the most common being Storrs and Schauffler. See also Toxteth Unitarian Chapel Notes References Attribution Further reading Middlekauff, Robert (1973), The Mathers - Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals 1596-1728 1596 births 1669 deaths 17th-century Christian clergy Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford American Christian clergy American Congregationalist ministers 17th-century English clergy Massachusetts colonial-era clergy 17th-century New England Puritan ministers Kingdom of England emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony People from Lowton People from colonial Boston People of colonial Massachusetts Mather family