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• Birth	1628	Liverpool, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	14 Jan 1685	Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA
  Person ID	I195	Mather-Schaffner
  Last Modified	02 Jul 2004
  Father	Rev. Richard Mather,   b. 1596, Lowton, Winwick Parish, Lancashire, England ,   d. 22 Apr 1669, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA
  Mother	Katharine Hoult,   b. 1598, Bury, Lancaster, England ,   d. Mar 1655, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA
  Married	29 Sep 1624	England
  Family ID	F28	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Catherine Atherton,   b. 28 Sep 1628, Warwicks, England ,   d. 14 Jan 1684, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA
  Married	Abt 1650	Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA
  Children	> 1. Rev. Samuel Mather,   b. 5 Sep 1650, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA ,   d. 18 Mar 1727, Windsor, Hartford Co., CT > 2. Richard Mather,   b. 20 Dec 1653, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA ,   d. 17 Aug 1688, Lyme, New London Co., CT   3. Katherine Mather,   b. 6 Jan 1655, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA ,   d. 14 Jul 1694, Windsor, Hartford Co., CT   4. Nathaniel Mather,   b. bd 1658, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA ,   d. Yes, date unknown > 5. Joseph Mather,   b. 25 May 1661, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA ,   d. 8 Jan 1691, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA > 6. Atherton Mather,   b. 4 Oct 1663, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA ,   d. 9 Nov 1734
  Family ID	F62	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Elizabeth Weeks,   b. 1631,   d. 20 Feb 1709, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA
  Married	20 Mar 1679	Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA
  Family ID	F69	Group Sheet

• Notes

  "Timothy Mather was the only son of the emigrant that grew up to manhood who was not a preacher and is called the "Mather farmer" of the early time, and settled in the town with his father. His brothers Samuel and Nathaniel went back to Europe and were noted preachers. Eleaser was the first minister in Northampton, Mass., where he died the same year his brother, Rev. Dr. Increase, settled in Boston. Timothy had a fall in his barn, which resulted in his death at the age of 56 years. Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton, his father-in-law, was a distinguished man in the colony. They are buried in "Upham's Corner Cemetery." "All persons in this country by the name of Mather who descend from the New England Mathers can be traced directly to Timothy Mather, as the name ceases in all the other lines with Samuel Mather, the grandson of Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather. Samuel Mather died in 1813. Many Mathers in this country claim descent from Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather, but they are mistaken. ...The Mathers now are from the three grandsons of Rev. Richard, who settled in Connecticut, Rev. Samuel (of Windsor branch), Richard (of Lyme branch), or Atherton (of Suffield branch)." Horace Mather In his will Rev. Richard states: "in as much as he (Timothy) hath not had so much cost bestowed upon him in his education...I have some years since given and assured to him in land, meadows, barn and other buildings, cows, oxen, bedding, household stuffe...also all my house, barne, buildings, lands, in Dorchester for his use during his natural life." Buried in Dorchester North Burying Ground, Upham's Corner.