Excerpt from The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, D.D., F. R. S: Or a Boston Minister of Two Centuries Ago, 1663-1728 At this time (1663) there were about forty towns in the colony of Massachusetts Bay and not far from ten in Plymouth Colony. The number of churches in both colo nies was fifty. Many of the towns were flourishing. Those near the coast united fishing and commerce to the cultivation of the land, and grew in population and wealth more rapidly than the inland towns and those on the Indian frontier. But in ...
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Excerpt from The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, D.D., F. R. S: Or a Boston Minister of Two Centuries Ago, 1663-1728 At this time (1663) there were about forty towns in the colony of Massachusetts Bay and not far from ten in Plymouth Colony. The number of churches in both colo nies was fifty. Many of the towns were flourishing. Those near the coast united fishing and commerce to the cultivation of the land, and grew in population and wealth more rapidly than the inland towns and those on the Indian frontier. But in forty-three years from the landing of the Pilgrims and thirty-five from the first settlement of the Bay, in Salem, great progress had been made in various branches of business, in education, and in religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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