Family LIfe of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706. His father’s name was Josiah and mother’s name was Abiah. Benjamin was the youngest boy out of seventeen children.
Benjamin’s father, Josiah, was a Candler. He did not make so much money with that job though. Benjamin’s father sent him to Boston Latin School but after one year took him out. Benjamin Franklin also went to a regular school that taught him how to write and to do math. Again his father took him out after one year. For the next few years Benjamin Franklin worked for his brother, James, in his printing shop . At the age of sixteen Benjamin Franklin wrote a new newspaper called “New England Courant”. No one new that he was writing it because he used pen names. One of the pen names that he used was “Mrs. Silence Dogood”. When Benjamin was seventeen he ran away from home to go to New York. He wanted to go to New York to work in the only printing shop in New York owned by William Bradford. William Bradford told him to go to Philadelphia. Franklin went to Philadelphia; his favorite part of Philadelphia was living near the Quakers because they welcomed all religions. In 1730 Deborah read and Benjamin Franklin moved in together but they couldn’t have a real wedding. Their first sons name was Francis Folger who died of small pox at the age of four. Then they had a daughter named Sarah. Their last child’s name was William. When Deborah died from a stroke she hadn’t seen Benjamin for fifteen years. Benjamin Started to publish the Philadelphisches Zeitung, the first newspaper printed in German colonies but printing stopped after a few issues.
Benjamin Franklin had a difficult childhood but as he grew older he accomplished many great things. He fulfilled his dreams.