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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 ...
The baby's middle name, Folger, was the maiden name of Franklin's mother, Abiah. Franklin was proud of his maternal family (one of the first settlers of New England), [10] and thus, in an era when it was unusual for ordinary people to receive a middle name, Francis was baptized as Francis Folger. [11]
I intended to have my Child inoculated." The child had a bad case of flux diarrhea, and his parents had waited for him to get well before having him inoculated. Franklin wrote in his Autobiography: "In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret ...
Letters to Benjamin Franklin from His Family and Friends, 1751-1790. New York: C. Benjamin Richardson. pp. 9– 10. (letter from Abiah Franklin to her son Benjamin Franklin) Isaacson, Walter (2004). Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5807-4. Lepore, Jill (July 2014).
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 ...
William Franklin FRSE (22 February [citation needed] 1730 – 17 November 1813) was an American-born attorney, soldier, politician, and colonial administrator.He was the acknowledged extra-marital son of Benjamin Franklin.
A mother-of-five has been jailed after she ignored warnings and her two Rottweilers savaged a pensioner in West Sussex. Vic Franklin, 79, was attacked in August 2023 near his home in Bognor Regis ...
Franklin even lived with the Power family for a time, when his parents decided that a superhero headquarters was a dangerous place for a child to live, and wanted Franklin to spend time in a "normal" family environment.