Robert Calef

Robert Calef
Baptised2 November 1648
Died13 April 1719
Roxbury, Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Known forCriticism of the Salem witch trials and Cotton Mather

Robert Calef (baptized 2 November 1648 – 13 April 1719) 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 1692–1693 and particularly examining the influential role played by Cotton Mather.

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