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Benjamin Franklin addresses this to his son, positing that he might want to know about his father’s history.
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Overall, he has come from poverty and obscurity and has no issue telling his story; it is almost like living one’s life over again. He will be like all old men who must be indulged and who enjoy slaking their vanity (which there is nothing wrong with doing).
Franklin learned most of his older family history from his uncle’s notes.
The family lived in Ecton, Northamptonshire, for over three hundred years. They tended to all be smiths. Franklin was the youngest son of a youngest son five generations back.
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His grandfather had four sons, Thomas being a well-known figure in country affairs. Franklin was named for one of his other uncles, a politician. The family was Protestant through the Reformation; some remained in the Church of England and others were Episcopal later.
Josiah, his own father, married young and moved to New England in to practice their religion freel