sold – Governor John Hancock Appoints a Noted Physician Justice of the Peace
Samuel Mather was a descendant of Cotton Mather and a member of a prominent family of ministers and physicians. In 1756 he graduated at Yale College, as had his father before him. He was a physician in Westfield, Massachusetts for almost half a century and personally cared for the wounded in...
Samuel Mather was a descendant of Cotton Mather and a member of a prominent family of ministers and physicians. In 1756 he graduated at Yale College, as had his father before him. He was a physician in Westfield, Massachusetts for almost half a century and personally cared for the wounded in Shay’s Rebellion. In his political career, Mather was town clerk, a representative to the state legislature, and a justice of the peace. From 1780-1800, in addition to his other posts, he served as special justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
Document Signed, Boston, September 18, 1788, appointing “Samuel Mather of Westfield to be one of the Justices to keep the peace in our county of Hampshire for the term of seven years, if during that time he shall behave while in the said office.”
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