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Ben Franklin

Everybody in the whole town loved them and I finally wrote 14 before I confessed and said it was me who wrote them my brother scolded me. He would often beat me. He published a paper called The Courant. He would talk about anything and everything. Much of them would be very offensive but he didn't care. The royal governor threw him in jail for a month and I actually ran the press for a month, I was the youngest editor in the month. The governor said he had to get permission on everything he printed, so to hide this James actually printed the paper saying I was an editor and we made a contract ending my apprentenship. He had another quarrel and at the age of 17 I ran away against his and my fathers will. .
             "What did you do after you ran away?" Well I went up to New York to find a job then I went to Philadelphia and was taken in by Samuel Keimer and I stayed with Mr. Read and my future wife and his daughter Deborah Read. Kiemer was not experienced as a printer. I actually think I had more experience than him. Later I became friends with Sir Willaim Keith and he promised me the world. He told me that if I go to my family and settle my dispute with them he would open a shop for me and I did. When I returned to Philadelphia with my fathers blessings the governor said all I had to do was go to London and get the supplies. That was a lie I was stuck in London for 18 months where I had no money. Thomas Denham told me he would pay for me to go back to America if I would become his clergy I agreed but three months after we returned he died I once again was left with nothing".
             What did you do after he died? Well I had no other choice but to go back to Samuel Kiemer. Later he tried to cut my wages and six months later I quit. A good friend of mine came with Meredith Hugh. I wanted to start my own newspaper but Kiemer started the Pennsylvania Gazette. I began writing amusing letters to his rival newspaper the Mercury and as Mercury sales went up The Gazettes fell and nine months later Kiemer sold the gazette to and Hughs and I.


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