Joseph MATHER

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• Birth: 25 May 1661

Joseph married Sarah CLAPP on 20 Jun 1689. Sarah (daughter of Nicholas CLAPP and Abigail ?) was born in Dec 1670. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Timothy Mather, second son of Rev. Richard Mather and his wife Catharine Holt, was born in Liverpool in 1628 and came to Boston with his father in 1635 when he was but seven years of age. He was not educated at Harvard as all his brothers were, nor did he like them become a preacher, but for some reason he took a bent contrary to the rest of the family and gave himself up to the care of his father's large landed estate. Hence, and as if to emphasize this contrary bent, he became known as the "Mather Farmer." Apparently he was the business head of the family and kept things going while his brothers were fitting themselves to become preachers and his father was struggling with the versification of the "Bay Psalm Book". In his will his father very thoughtfully and considerately provides: - "And concerning my son Timothy, inasmuch as he hath not had so much cost bestowed upon him in his education as his brothers have had, therefore I think it meet that I should otherwise bestow upon him and his a greater portion of my outward estate," and then proceeds to give Timothy a life interest in the bulk of his real estate, remainder over to his children, and to make him also his residuary legatee.

Timothy married Catharine ATHERTON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Major General Humphrey Atherton of Dorchester