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Among many historians a belief persists that Cotton Mather`s biographies of some of the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (published 1702) are exercises in hagiography, endowing their subjects with saintly piety at the expense of historical accuracy. Yet modern studies have profited both from the breadth of information that Mather provides in, for example, his discussions of colonial medicine and from his critical observations of such leading figures as Governor John Winthrop. Mather`s wry humor as demonstrated by his detailed descriptions of events such as Winthrop`s efforts to prevent wood-stealing is overlooked by those charging Mather with presenting his subjects as extremely pious. The charge also obscures Mather`s concern with the settlers` material, not just spiritual, prosperity. Further, this pejorative view underrates the biographies` value as chronicles: Mather amassed all sorts of published and unpublished documents as sources, and his selection of key events shows a marked sensitivity to the nature of the colony`s development.

The author of the passage implies that an argument for the historical accuracy of Mather`s works is most strongly supported by which of the following?

Asurviving documents that corroborate Mather`s detailed descriptions of his subjects
BMather`s firsthand personal acquaintance with those about whom he wrote
C Mather`s frank and straightforward accounts of the lives and times of people about whom he had conducted extensive research
DMather`s ability to detail important historical events in the religious context of which they were a part
Ethe quantity and nature of the sources from which Mather obtained his information.

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