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Robert Calef

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Gender Male
Born England
United Kingdom
DiedRoxbury
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
Job Cloth merchant
BooksMore Wonders of the Invisible World: Or The Wonders of the Invisible World Displayed. In Five Parts
More Wonders of the Invisible World: 1700
The Witchcraft Delusion in New England
Woodward's Historical Series. No. VII. the Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination. ;
More Wonders of the Invisible World: Or, the Wonders of the Invisible World, Display'd in Five Parts. Part I. an Account of the Sufferings of Margaret Rule, Written by the Reverend Mr. C. M. P. II. Several Letters to the Author, Etc. and His Reply Relating to Witchcraft. P. III. the Differences Between the Inhabitants of Salem Village, and Mr. Parris Their Minister, in New-England. P. IV. Letters of a Gentleman Uninterested, Endeavo
The Witchcraft Delusion in New England; Its Rise, Progress, and Termination, As Exhibited by Dr. Cotton Mather, in the Wonders of the Invisible World; and by Mr. Robert Calef, in His More Wonders of the Invisible World. with a Preface, Introduction, and N: 3
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Robert Calef Life story


Robert Calef was a cloth merchant in colonial Boston. He was the author of More Wonders of the Invisible World, a book composed throughout the mid-1690s denouncing the recent Salem witch trials of 1692-3 and particularly examining the influential role played by Cotton Mather.

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