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A50202 An essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have hapned this last age, especially in New-England / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. 1684 (1684) Wing M1207; ESTC W479522 170,040 411

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