![]() In 1728, Franklin began operating a successful printing business and publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette. In late 1724, he took his first transatlantic trip (out of eight during his lifetime), and he spent most of the next two years learning the printing trade in London. ![]() After several fallings out with his brother, Franklin slipped away to Philadelphia in 1723. The precocious apprentice’s first publication was a broadside ballad on the capture of Blackbeard, but his first lasting literary creation, the character of a Puritan widow turned author named Silence Dogood, appeared in a series of letters surreptitiously submitted to his brother’s newspaper, The New England Courant, in 1722. He was apprenticed to his brother James, a printer. ![]() ![]() Benjamin Franklin (b. 1706–d. 1790) was born and raised in colonial Boston, Massachusetts, in the waning years of Puritan hegemony. ![]()
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