Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790. He penned the inscription that would eventually appear at his Christ Church ...

The deputy postmaster general of North America and ... the fourth paper in the colonies (and the third in Boston). As apprentice, Benjamin Franklin does the grunt work—“I was employed to ...

But He Was The First Postmaster General Of The United States In 1753, the British Crown made Benjamin Franklin the postmaster of all 13 colonies, a post he held for two decades. And in July 1755 ...

Now, thanks to years of dogged fundraising on both sides of the Atlantic, Benjamin ... deputy postmaster general for North America and commercial agent for several of the Colonies, Franklin ...

Why a film about Benjamin Franklin? David Schmidt ... Through his role as a postmaster and printer, he exchanged news, ideas, and theories with well-connected and ingenious people on his continent ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...