primarily by Puritans in the early colonial United States, particularly in New England.

It was written about Increase Mather (1639-1723), the Puritan minister, academic, and influential figure in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, that the reason he was given the name Increase was "... the never-to-be-forgotten increase, of every sort, wherewith God favoured the country about the time of his nativity".

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