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Benjamin Franklin Bache
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Pronouncing on Printers
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In 1767 Benjamin Franklin ’s daughter Sally married Richard Bache (1737-1811, shown here), a Yorkshireman who had moved to Philadelphia t...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017
“We pronounce it to be an impudent forgery”
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Two days ago I quoted an article signed “The Mirror” from the 15 July 1803 Republican newspaper of Baltimore. Over the next month the s...
Thursday, October 27, 2016
“It would mortify Mr. Adams and please Mr. Washington”
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly planned to honor George Washington ’s birthday with a ball on 22 Feb 1798, but then elections were sched...
Sunday, July 05, 2015
Dr. Franklin’s Invitation in 1779
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When Benjamin Franklin was the American minister to France , he set up a small press at his home in Passy in order to print government...
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