Word: ratcliffe
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Dates: during 1907-1907
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...prefixed to which is a pamphlet of the greatest rarity. This is Cotton Mather's "Poem Dedicated to the Memory of the Reverend and Excellent Mr. Urian Oakes, the late Pastor of Christ's Flock, and President of Harvard College, in Cambridge. Boston in New-England, printed for John Ratcliff, 1682." This is thought to be Cotton Mather's earliest publication, written when he was nineteen years old, and only one other copy of it has ever come to light. That copy was sold at the Brinley sale in 1879, and was bought by C. Fiske Harris for his collection...