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Franklin's father, a poor chandler, owned a copy of a book, Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good, by the Puritan preacher and family friend Cotton Mather, which Franklin often cited as a key influence on his life. "If I have been," Franklin wrote to Cotton Mather's son seventy years later, "a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that ...
Sarah Franklin Bache (September 11, 1743 – October 5, 1808), sometimes known as Sally Bache, was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read. She was a leader in relief work during the American Revolutionary War and frequently served as her father's political hostess, like her mother before her death in 1774.
He was the ninth child of blacksmith Thomas Franklin (1598–1682), and his first wife, Jane White (1617–1662). Thomas was the son of Henry Franckline (1573–1631) and Agnes Joanes (1574–1646). Thomas Franklin remarried and had more children. Josiah Franklin worked as a fabric dyer in Ecton. Franklin immigrated to the American colonies in ...
Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States until her death in 1774. Early years [ edit ]
The description of Abiah in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is very brief — only two sentences — and has been the focus of recent scholarship. [6] Matthew Garrett wrote that "the Autobiography is perhaps the finest example within the modern narrative tradition of a text that habitually compresses major characters - those, that is, who play integral and significant roles within the plot ...
The new Apple TV+ show starring Michael Douglas follows Benjamin Franklin on his way to France. Here's the true story behind it. The True Story Behind Benjamin Franklin’s French Voyage in 'Franklin'
Staring out from the $100 bill, looking more like a wise old uncle than Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin seems an easy guy to like. And if anyone belongs on U.S. currency it's this colonial ...
Part One of the Autobiography is addressed to Franklin's son William, at that time (1771) Royal Governor of New Jersey.While in England at the estate of the Bishop of St Asaph in Twyford, the 65-year-old Franklin begins by describing his parents and grandparents, recounting his childhood, expressing his fondness for reading, and narrating his apprenticeship to his brother James Franklin, a ...