Josiah Franklin (Ben’s dad) moved to America from England in 1682 with his wife and three children. After he moved to America the then had four more children with that wife and then had ten more children with Abiah (Ben’s mom) after his first wife died. Ben was number 15 out of seventeen children and was born on Boston on January 17, 1706. At this point is where a story about a man that started with nothing …showed first 75 words of 428 total…

…showed last 75 words of 428 total…the age of 17. He finds out that he can work for a Printer named Andrew Bradford in Philadelphia. So he takes the trip to Philadelphia and on his way he saves a drunken mans life by pulling him out of the water so he did not drown. After getting to Philadelphia he finds out that there isn’t an opening that he can offer Ben so he goes to work for a man named Keimer.