Rev. Samuel MATHER

1651 - 1728  (76 years)

• Name	Samuel MATHER  [1, 2, 3]
  	Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1671, married Hannah, daughter of Governor Treat of Connecticut, and died in 1727 at the age of seventy-seven years. In 1682, when thirty-two years old, he settled inWindsor, Conn., where he remained as the pastor of its church until his death. He was a clergyman of considerable celebrity, able and faithful; and when Yale College was founded in 1700, he was one of the principal ministers chosen to be founders by the general consent of the Connecticut clergy. He is the head of the Windsor branch of the Mather family. [1] Rev. Samuel Mather graduated at H.C. in 1671, and prepared himself for the ministry. He then preached in Deerfield, Mass., until the destruction of that town by the Indians, in 1675; from there he went to Hatfield, and later to Milford and Branford, Conn., and from the latter place he was called to settle in Windsor, Conn., in 1682, where he remained until his death. It was said of him, "that in every respect e was a fit successor to the venerable John Warham." Descended from a highly respectable and gifted ancestry, he was one, and by no means the least, of a circle of noble men, whose varied talents and pious lives have rendered the name of Mather distinguished among the families of New England, even to the present day. His father, Timothy Mather of Dorchester, was a son of Rev. Richard, third minister of that town, and his mother a daughter of the excellent Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton. Thus highly connected, his earlier years were spent in the enjoyment of all the advantages which the best society of tat day could afford. The powers of his mind, the amiability of his character, and his piety, speedily won the esteem and love of his people, and composed the difficulties which existed among them. he was then in the prime of his life, grave and dignified in person, faithful and consistent in his daily life, and benignant and winning in manner. His connection b marriage with the daughter of the Hon. Robert treat, afterwards governor of the Colony of Connecticut, was in itself happy, and served to increase the influence which his gifts of mind and heart had already secured for him in the public estimation. Thus, happy in his public and domestic relations, his life was quietly passed in the faithful discharge of his pastoral duties to his now happy flock. And it is pleasant to record that during the whole period of his ministry, not one shadow of complaint seems to have darkened his or their pathway. On the contrary there is abundant evidence that he was the constant recipient of many marks of public and private respect and care.... [2]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	5 Jul 1650/1	Dorchester, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Mar 1727/8	Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut   [1, 2, 3]
  Person ID	I101656	Main Tree
  Last Modified	23 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Timothy MATHER,   b. 1628, Liverpool, England d. 14 Jan 1684, (from a fall in his barn) Dorchester, Connecticut (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Catharine ATHERTON
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F365	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah TREAT,   b. 1 Jan 1660/1, Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut d. 3 Mar 1707/8, Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut (Age 47 years)
  Children	1. Dr. Samuel MATHER,   b. 1677, Branford, Connecticut d. 6 Feb 1745/6 (Age 69 years)  [Birth] + 2. Rev. Nathaniel MATHER,   b. 30 May 1695   d. 20 May 1748 (Age 52 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F373	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jan 2021

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 5 Jul 1650/1 - Dorchester, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S12076] Charles S. Hall, HALL Ancestry A Series of Sketches of the Lineal Ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley. [S12200] Horace E. Mather, Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather. [S12222] John Harvey Treat, A.M., "The Treat Family" A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for Fifteen Generations, and Four Hundred and Fifty Years in England and America.