A New England minister, and the archive's most persistent chronicler of the colonial uncanny. In 1688 Cotton Mather witnessed the fits of the Goodwin children, housed Martha and wrote Memorable Providences. He described children who flew like geese, toes barely touching the ground. Later reports reached him from other ministers. Rev. James Pierpont sent testimony on the New Haven ghost ship of 1647. Rev. John Emerson sent an account of the Spectre Leaguers of Cape Ann. Mather printed both in Magnalia Christi Americana in 1702, the second as an example of a prodigious war made by spirits of the invisible world.
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Pro earlyMinister who published Pierpont's account in Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)
Pro earlySummarised the case in Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)
Pro earlyMinister who witnessed the fits, housed Martha and wrote Memorable Providences
Pro earlyPrinted Emerson's account in Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)
Pro earlyher minister at the Second Church; author of Another Brand Pluckt out of the Burning