# Cotton Mather — The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin character guide

> Cotton Mather in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mather

**First appearance:** 0004-i-ancestry-and-early-youth-in-boston

## Who they are

Boston minister whose writings influenced Franklin's moral project.

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