An essay for the recording of illustrious providences: wherein, an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events, which have happened in this last age; especially in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]

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An essay for the recording of illustrious providences: wherein, an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events, which have happened in this last age; especially in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Author
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
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Printed at Boston in New-England, :: [by Samuel Green] and are to be sold by George Calvert at the Sign of the Half-Moon in Pauls Church-Yard, London,,
1684.
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Subject terms
Providence and government of God.
Witchcraft.
Supernatural.
Apparitions.
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Religious aspects.
Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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"An essay for the recording of illustrious providences: wherein, an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events, which have happened in this last age; especially in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N00296.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 8, 2024.

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CHAP. V.

Concerning things Praeternatural, which have hapned in New-England. A Remark|able Relation about Ann Cole of Hartford. Concerning several Witches in that Colony. Of the Possessed Maid at Groton. An account of the House in Newbery lately troubled with a Daemon. A parallel Story of an House at Ted worth in England. Concern|ing

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another in Hartford, and of one in Portsmouth in New-England lately dis|quieted by Evil Spirits. An account of the Woman at Kitry molested with Apparit|ons, and sometimes tormented by invisible Agents. Page 135.

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