leased on Milk Street in Boston Massachusetts. He had sixteen siblings, that left the house

as he grew older, but he could recollect sitting at a dinner table with at least a dozen of

them, as an earliest memory.1 The period of education and apprenticeship had begun. At

the early age of ten, before which he was attending school, Benjamin began working with

his father in the family business, as a soap and candle maker. But that wasn’t an attractive

career for the young Benjamin. The main source of the raw resource for the business were

from the carcasses of animals. He tried his way into a cutlery apprenticeship.

Unfortunately that didn’t go through, and he went on to be an apprentice to his half

brother James, as a printer.2 James Franklin, nine years older than Ben, set up a shop only

three blocks away from Ben’s father, Josiah’s house.3 Benjamin helped print the New

England Courant, and published James’ newspaper. At the age of 17, Benjamin left

Boston and went to Philadelphia, were he found employment at a local print shop there. In

1724, Benjamin was sent to England to buy printing equipment

legislature. In the lower house, the states would be represented by population; and each

consisted of a federal system, that would put responsibilities in the realm of what might

Canada in hopes they would help join the revolt against Britain. He was also an advisor to

Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the

the United States as a sovereign nation and to provide it with greatly expanded military

Benjamin Franklin then went to France to lobby for aid and diplomatic recognition.

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