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Benjamin Franklin was a native of Boston, and was born on the 17th of January, 1706. The paternal branch of his ancestors inhabited the county of Northampton in England. They were proprietors of a small freehold estate near the village of Eaton, where the family had been established, according to the traditions of that place, for more than three centuries. They pursued generally some trade, especially that of blacksmith, and were very honorably distinguished in their neighbourhood, for industry, honesty, and mechanical ingenuity. His father, who was of the persuasion of the Puritans, emigrated in 1682 to the colony of Massachusetts, the common refuge of those of his sect, who fled from the persecutions of their native country; but VOL.
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