Timothy MATHER

1628 - 1684  (56 years)

• Name	Timothy MATHER  [1, 2]
  	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. [1]
  Birth	1628	Liverpool, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Jan 1684	(from a fall in his barn) Dorchester, Connecticut   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I101341	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   [2, 3, 4]
  Family ID	F00648	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Catharine ATHERTON
  Children	+ 1. Rev. Samuel MATHER,   b. 5 Jul 1650/1, Dorchester, Massachusetts d. 18 Mar 1727/8, Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut (Age 76 years)  [Birth] + 2. Richard MATHER,   b. 20 Dec 1653, Dorchester, Massachusetts d. 17 Aug 1688, Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut (Age 34 years)  [Birth]   3. Catherine MATHER,   b. 6 Jan 1655/6   d. 1694 (Age 37 years)  [Birth]   4. Nathaniel MATHER,   b. 2 Jul 1658  [Birth]   5. Joseph MATHER,   b. 2 Feb 1661   d. 8 Jan 1690/1 (Age 29 years)  [Birth]   6. Atherton MATHER,   b. 4 Oct 1663, Dorchester, Massachusetts d. 9 Nov 1734 (Age 71 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F365	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth WEEKS
  Marriage	20 Mar 1678  [1]
  Family ID	F368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Dec 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1628 - Liverpool, England  = 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. [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.