Cotton Mather took an interest in the phenomenon, reporting that:

Incidentally, Cotton Mather got into Harvard at 12, just like his father.

Cotton Mather, who lived during the colonial period, encouraged the formation of associations and causes.

That way nothing like what happened in Cotton Mather's time can happen to us.

Cotton Mather had no male children live to adulthood.

Cotton Mather was not known for writing in a neutral, unbiased perspective.

Despite Cotton Mather's efforts, he never became quite as well known and successful in politics as his father.

In the years after the trials, Cotton Mather remained unrepentant for his role.

It was as if Cotton Mather had returned from the dead, and in black face at that.

Cotton Mather was a writer who invented the cotten gin and wrote histories.