NOTE: This recording stammers for the first 1:09 minutes but is ok after that.

70 years before the American Revolution, Benjamin youngest son of Josiah and Abiah Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts whose population then was about 10,000. 16 years later in the printing press of his elder brother James under mysterious circumstances he began the literary career that was to last over 60 years.