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... Wife . - Congress and Public Business . - Mission to France . - Residence at Paris . - Return to America . - Constitution of the United States . - Death and Character of Franklin . • • 447 THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . CHAPTER I. HIS ...
... Wife . - Congress and Public Business . - Mission to France . - Residence at Paris . - Return to America . - Constitution of the United States . - Death and Character of Franklin . • • 447 THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . CHAPTER I. HIS ...
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... wife , at an early age , in Banbury , in the neighboring county of Oxford , where he served his apprenticeship as a wocl - dyer , with his uncle John Franklin , and where his first three children were born . In the year 1684 , or early ...
... wife , at an early age , in Banbury , in the neighboring county of Oxford , where he served his apprenticeship as a wocl - dyer , with his uncle John Franklin , and where his first three children were born . In the year 1684 , or early ...
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Orville Luther Holley. but the seventh daughter , of Peter Folger and his wife Mary , in the town of Sherburn , on the island of Nan- tucket . By this second wife , Josiah Franklin had ten children , making the whole number seventeen ...
Orville Luther Holley. but the seventh daughter , of Peter Folger and his wife Mary , in the town of Sherburn , on the island of Nan- tucket . By this second wife , Josiah Franklin had ten children , making the whole number seventeen ...
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... wife's father ; when she , standing at the door , saw me , and thought I made , as I certainly did , a most awkward and ridicu- lous appearance . Then I turned and went down Chest- nut street and part of Walnut street , eating my roll ...
... wife's father ; when she , standing at the door , saw me , and thought I made , as I certainly did , a most awkward and ridicu- lous appearance . Then I turned and went down Chest- nut street and part of Walnut street , eating my roll ...
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... wife and child he had left behind him at Philadelphia ; and Benjamin , as he sub- sequently confesses , gave little attention to the duties imposed on him , by his engagements with Miss Read , to whom he wrote " but one letter , and ...
... wife and child he had left behind him at Philadelphia ; and Benjamin , as he sub- sequently confesses , gave little attention to the duties imposed on him , by his engagements with Miss Read , to whom he wrote " but one letter , and ...
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