Portrait of Increase Mather
Joint Rector of St Tida's and Maghera - 1657...

Increase Mather (father of Cotton Mather) studied at Trinity College, Dublin and had been appointed under the Cromwell's Protectorate to the parishes of Ballyscullion and Magherafelt in 1657 - Two of his uncles were, at the same time, ministers in Dublin City. Cromwell's death in 1658 put a sudden end to his soujourn in Bellaghy and he departed to become a chaplain to a military regiment in the Channel Islands.

 

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