THE TOWN OF WESTCHESTER. 317 



had been chosen as one of the church-wardens of the parish, he positively 

 refused to use his influence with Gov. Fletcher to have Mather inducted 

 to that living," as we shall have occasion to show presently, which finally 

 led to his removal in 1701. 



Mr. Warham Mather, who was born at Northampton, Mass , in 1666, 

 and graduated at Harvard College in 1685,^ was the son of Eleazer, and 

 grandson of Richard, who was the son of Thomas and Margaret Math- 

 er, and was born at Lowton, in the parish of Winwick, in Lancashire, in 

 1596 ; was sometime a student at Brazennose College, Oxford, ordained 

 by Bishop Morton, of Chester, in 16 18, afterwards was chosen minister 

 and school-master at Toxtath park, near Liverpool, where he continued 

 for fifteen years. He was suspended for non-conformity, and removed 

 with his family to New England, in 1635; settled over the church of 

 Dorchester, Mass., 23d of August, 1636, and died 22d of April, 1669. 

 Wood denominates him " a pious man, and a zealous and laborious 

 preacher ; " and adds, "that he was much followed by the precise party; 

 but that he was a severe Calvinist, and no friend to the Church of Eng- 

 land." He was twice married. His first wife was the pious daughter of 

 Edward Holt, Esq., of Bury, in Lancashire ; and his second wife, the 

 widow of Mr. John Cotton. He had four sons employed in the minis- 

 try, all eminent in their day. Nathaniel, Samuel and Increase, were 

 preachers in England, and all ejected by the fatal Act of Uniformity, in 

 1662. d His son, Eleazer Mather, was pastor of the Church at North- 

 ampton, in New England, and was born at Dorchester, 13th of May, 

 1637 ; graduated at Harvard College, 1656 ; ordained 23d of June, 1661, 

 and died 24th of July, 1669, aged thirty-two; leaving by his wife, (who 

 was a daughter of the Rev. John Warham), the before mentioned War- 

 ham Mather. "On the 29th of May, 1697, John Yeats, of the city of 

 New York, sold several tracts of land in Westchester, to Warham Math- 

 er, of Northampton, in the county of Hampshire, in his Majesty's Pro- 

 vince of Massachusetts Bay, in America, (student in Divinity), now re- 

 siding in the town of Westchester." 



"In 1703, Warham Mather, of New Haven, student in Divinity, sold 

 his lands in Westchester to Daniel Clark. "S He died in 1745.^ 



a Such was the law at this period tliat if any unqualified person was presented to a living 

 he that presented him could not afterwards present another, on the ground that no person 

 that has the presentation to a benefice can do it twice. 



b i:< v. mas. W. Baird. Tbere is a Letter of his among the Mather papers. It is addressed 

 from Boston, July 6, 1688, to his uncle Increase, who was then in England. Warham asked his 

 advice about going to England himself. 



c Lives of the Puritans, by Brook, vol. iii., pp. 440-445. Palmer's Xoncon. Mem. vol. ii., pp. 

 245-355.— Mather's Magnalia Farmers Register 



d Lives of the Puritan.-, by Brook, 445. 



e Town Rec. of Westchester. Lib. v. 73. / Town Bee. of Westchester, Lib. vi. 30. 



n The date of his death is given in the Catalogue of the Prince Library, in connection with 

 the mention of a printed sermon attributed to Warham Mather— Rev. C'has. W. Baird. 



