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Benjamin Franklin thought that slavery was "an atrocious debasement of human nature" and "a source of serious evils." In 1787, Franklin and Benjamin Rush helped write a new constitution for the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, [264] and that same year Franklin became president of the organization. [265]
Franklin appointed sentries and organized armed patrols and defenses. [31] On New Year's Day 1756, twenty new militiamen who were building a fort on the site of the Gnadenhuetten massacre were lured into an ambush and killed by Indians who had come through the Lehigh Gap. Stunned at this breach, Governor Morris granted Franklin blanket ...
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, an artistic rendition of Franklin's kite experiment painted by Benjamin West, c. 1816 The BEP engraved the vignette Franklin and Electricity (c. 1860) which was used on the $10 National Bank Note from the 1860s to 1890s.
Tobias Conrad Lotter's 1756 map of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey depicting Gnadenhütten, left of the map's center. The Gnadenhütten massacre was an attack during the French and Indian War in which Native allies of the French killed 11 Moravian missionaries at Gnadenhütten, Pennsylvania (modern day Lehighton, Pennsylvania) on 24 November 1755.
Two and a half years later in 1983, Henry Hays and James Knowles were arrested. Knowles confessed to Bodman in 1983, and additional evidence was revealed during the civil trial initiated by Donald's mother Beulah Mae Donald in 1984, [4] leading to the indictment of Benjamin Franklin Cox Jr., a truck driver, as an accomplice in the criminal case ...
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.
Benjamin Franklin wrote, "the Spirit of killing all Indians, Friends and Foes, spread amazingly thro' the whole Country." [ 7 ] The most notorious incident was the January 1768 murder of ten Lenape and Mohicans , including women and children, by Frederick Stump and John Ironcutter in Cumberland County.
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 ]