Rev. Eleazer MATHER

1637 - 1669  (32 years)

• Name	Eleazer MATHER  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  	Rev. Eleazer Mather, the fifth son of Rev. Richard Mather, was born in Dorchester, Mass., may 13, 1637. He graduated at Harvard in 1656 and was minister at Northampton where he died, July 4, 1669, at the age of thirty-nine years. He was a man of talents and exalted piety and a zealous and eminently useful preacher. His father died the same year. His daughter, Eunice, married rev. John Williams, and was a victim of the Deerfield massacre. Her daughter was carried off into Canada with other prisoners, and subsequently married an Indian and was the ancestress of Rev. John Williams, a missionary in the Northwest, who was supposed by many to be the lost Dauphin, sons of Louis XVI, of France. [1]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	16 May 1637	Dorchester, Massachusetts   [1, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Jul 1669	Northampton, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts   [2, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I38136	Main Tree
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Rev. Richard MATHER,   b. Abt 1596, Lowton, Winwick Parish, of Toxteth, Park, England d. 22 Apr 1669, Dorchester, Connecticut (Age 73 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Katherine HOLT   d. 1655
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	29 Sep 1624	Bury, Lancashire, England   [5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F00648	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Esther WARHAM,   b. 1644   d. 10 Feb 1736 (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	29 Sep 1659  [3, 4, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Eunice MATHER,   b. 02 Aug 1664, Northampton, Massachusetts d. 1 Mar 1703/4, Deerfield, Massachusetts (Age 39 years)  [Birth]   2. Rev. Warham MATHER,   b. 07 Sep 1666, Northampton, Massachusetts d. 12 Aug 1745 (Age 78 years)  [Birth]   3. Eliakim MATHER,   b. 22 Sep 1668   d. 24 Jul 1669 (Age 0 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F19255	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2021

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 16 May 1637 - 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. [S03455] Benjamin W.Dwight, The History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Massachusetts, (Name: Name: A Heritage Classic - Heritage Books;;). [S02352] James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc;;). [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking. [S12200] Horace E. Mather, Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather. [S9777] Nathaniel Goodwin, Genealogical Notes or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, (New England Historic Genealogical Society). [S12201] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration - Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol V M-P.