Part One chronicles Franklin’s eventful journey to Philadelphia, including his arrival by boat on October 6, 1723, after first docking in Burlington, New Jersey. This photograph displays a copy of Holme’s map that belonged to Benjamin Chew (1722-1810), head of the Pennsylvania judiciary system. Upon his arrival to Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin walked on High Street (later Market Street), which can be seen in this 1682 map of the city grid by cartographer Thomas Holme (1624-95). There, he has trouble finding work and thus moves to Philadelphia. After a dispute with his brother, at the young age of seventeen Franklin leaves his apprenticeship and resolves to move secretly to New York. He recounts his lineage, depicts his early life in Boston, and documents his apprenticeship with his brother James (1697-1735), a printer. Franklin documents his childhood and adolescence, including his arrival in Philadelphia and his achievements in the printing business. Written during the era of tension between the British and the colonies caused by seemingly arbitrary taxation, Part One of The Autobiography takes the form of a letter addressed to Franklin’s son William (1731-1814), then serving as royal governor of New Jersey. After thirty years of building his reputation as a printer and civic leader, Franklin also spent five years in England as a diplomat for the Pennsylvania Assembly beginning in 1757. 1688-1742) and begin Poor Richard’s Almanack.
As a young man, Franklin traveled to England in 1724-26 to expand his knowledge of the printing trade and then returned to Philadelphia where he would seize production of The Pennsylvania Gazette from Samuel Keimer (c. Although Philadelphia was Franklin’s home, this trip marked his third sojourn to England. He began writing The Autobiography in 1771, during a stay in London of more than ten years as a mediator between England and the American colonies. The Autobiography is arranged in four parts, each with a distinct purpose and tone, though Franklin intended for the work to be read fluidly as a whole. An integral thread in the fabric of Franklin’s history, Philadelphia is the setting for much of the autobiography and the site where Franklin composed portions of the work. Written in simple, often humorous language, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin offered readers in the new United States an accessible, exemplary narrative of American upward mobility.
Over eighteen years, from 1771 until his death, Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) composed an unfinished record of his life’s tribulations and successes. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (The).Philadelphia, the Place that Loves You Back.
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