Good for you! What does Cotton 1706 stand for??
“What does Cotton 1706 stand for??”
It refers to Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin (born in 1706). If you’re not familiar with Mather, he was basically the Billy Graham of his day. I had seen a documentary on Franklin around the time I chose the screen name.
My favorite story about the two was when Mather and Franklin (Mather quite old and Franklin quite young) were walking down a stairway, and the ceilings in stairways at the time were low and Franklin bumped his head, to which Mather replied, always stoop through life and you’ll avoid a lot of bumps. In other words, be humble in your doings and you’ll run into less problems.