The Boston Globe, June 20th, 1988
THE LAST AMERICAN PURITAN. The Life of Increase Mather, by Michael G. Hall. Wesleyan University Press. 438 pp. $35. Three hundred years ago this April anxious spectators clustered on Beacon Hill watching a police boat shadow the square-rigger President, standing out for England. Edward Randolph, the royal governor's cat's-paw, had sent the boat to make sure that Increase Mather, empowered to negotiate with James II on behalf of the colonists, was not aboard. Randolph would, if he could, arrest Mather, "that crazed star-gazer" and "bellows of sedition." President speedily outdistanced the boat,...
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