About Robert Calef

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 1692–1693 and particularly examining the influential role played by Cotton Mather.

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Born: 1648
Died: 1719

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Robert Calef

commentator on the Salem Witch trials; merchant and local Massachusetts politician (1648–1719)

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