 Hannah Mather born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on June 27, 1752.She was the daughter of Samuel Mather, a Congregationalist minister, and Hannah Hutchinson.She was a descendant of the Mather dynasty founded in New England by Richard Mather (1596–1669), through his son Increase Mather (1639–1723) and his grandson Cotton Mather (1663-1728), all prominent Puritan ministers involved in the important religious and political issues of their era, including the Salem Witch Trials and the controversy over vaccination against smallpox.