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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Glossary

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appears to have called the work his Memoirs.^[1]

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1818 non-fiction books
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Books about Benjamin Franklin
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A. L. Burt

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Aide-de-camp

An aide-de-camp (French expression meaning literally "helper in the military camp") is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, or to a member of a royal family or a head of state.

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Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen).

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Andrew Bradford

Andrew Bradford (1686 – November 24, 1742) was an early American printer in colonial Philadelphia.

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Audiobook

An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud.

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Autobiography

An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.

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Autograph (manuscript)

An autograph or holograph is a manuscript or document written in its author's or composer's hand.

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Beacon Press

Beacon Press is an American left-wing non-profit book publisher.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.

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Bishop of St Asaph

The Bishop of St Asaph heads the Church in Wales diocese of St Asaph.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Colonel

Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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County Tyrone

County Tyrone is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland.

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Edward Braddock

Edward Braddock (January 1695 – 13 July 1755) was a British officer and commander-in-chief for the Thirteen Colonies during the start of the French and Indian War (1754–1763), the North American front of what is known in Europe and Canada as the Seven Years' War (1756–1763).

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Electricity

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge.

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Experiment

An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.

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Fortification

A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.

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Franklin stove

The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742.

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Frontier

A frontier is a political and geographical term referring to areas near or beyond a boundary.

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George Whitefield

George Whitefield (30 September 1770), also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican minister and preacher who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.

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Governor

A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative.

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Hospital

A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment.

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Huntington Library

The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California.

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Indenture

An indenture is a legal contract that reflects or covers a debt or purchase obligation.

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James Franklin (printer)

James Franklin (February 4, 1697 in Boston – February 4, 1735 in Newport, Rhode Island) was an early American printer, publisher and author of newspapers and almanacs in the American colonies.

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Jared Sparks

Jared Sparks (May 10, 1789 – March 14, 1866) was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister.

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Jean-Antoine Nollet

Jean-Antoine Nollet (19 November 170025 April 1770) was a French clergyman and physicist who did a number of experiments with electricity and discovered osmosis.

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John Bigelow

John Bigelow Sr. (November 25, 1817 – December 19, 1911) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin and the first autobiography of Franklin taken from Franklin's previously lost original manuscript.

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John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun

General John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (5 May 1705 – 27 April 1782) was a Scottish nobleman and British army officer.

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John Fothergill (physician)

John Fothergill FRS (8 March 1712 – 26 December 1780) was an English physician, plant collector, philanthropist, and Quaker.

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Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 May 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.

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Junto (club)

The Junto, also known as the Leather Apron Club, was a club for mutual improvement established in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.

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Justice of the peace

A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

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Legislator

A legislator, or lawmaker, is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature.

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Leo Lemay

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Leonard Woods Labaree

Leonard W. Labaree (August 26, 1897, near Urumia, Persia – May 5, 1980, in Northford, Connecticut) was a distinguished documentary editor, a professor of history at Yale University for more than forty years, a historian of Colonial America, and the founding editor of the multivolume publication of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.

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Library Company of Philadelphia

The Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) is a non-profit organization based on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.

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Mathew Carey

Mathew Carey (January 28, 1760 – September 16, 1839) was an Irish-born American publisher and economist who lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Michael Rye

Michael Rye (born John Michael Riorden Billsbury; March 2, 1918 – September 20, 2012) was an American actor.

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Military

A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.

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Monarch

A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary.

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Municipal council

A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Old South Meeting House

The Old South Meeting House is a historic Congregational church building located at the corner of Milk and Washington Streets in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1729.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.

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Pamphlet

A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a hard cover or binding).

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Poor Richard's Almanack

Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Poor Richard's Almanack are works by Benjamin Franklin.

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Privy Council (United Kingdom)

The Privy Council (formally His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council) is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Proprietary colony

Proprietary colonies were a type of colony in English America which existed during the early modern period.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Regiment

A regiment is a military unit.

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Religion

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

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Richard Steele

Sir Richard Steele (– 1 September 1729) was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician best known as the co-founder of the magazine The Spectator alongside his close friend Joseph Addison.

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Royal Society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

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San Marino, California

San Marino is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Self-made man

A self-made man, is a person whose success is of their own making.

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Silence Dogood

Silence Dogood was the pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his brother James Franklin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Silence Dogood are works by Benjamin Franklin.

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Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet

Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet (1669 – 18 November 1749) was a Scottish colonial administrator who served as lieutenant-governor of the British colonies of Pennsylvania and Delaware, from 1717 to 1726.

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.

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Street

A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment.

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The New-England Courant

The New-England Courant (also spelled New England Courant), one of the first American newspapers, was founded in Boston in 1721, by James Franklin.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year.

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The Spectator (1711)

The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England, lasting from 1711 to 1712.

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Thomas Bond (American physician)

Thomas Bond (May 2, 1713 – March 26, 1784) was an American physician and surgeon.

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Thomas Denham

Thomas Denham was a Philadelphia merchant who plays an important role in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, as a father figure, friend, and benefactor who helps the young Benjamin Franklin during and after his first trip to England in 1724–1726.

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Thomas Penn

Thomas Penn (– 21 March 1775) was an English landowner and mercer who was the chief proprietor of Pennsylvania from 1746 to 1775.

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Twyford, Hampshire

Twyford is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, approximately south of Winchester and near the M3 motorway and Twyford Down.

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United States Postmaster General

The United States postmaster general (PMG) is the chief executive officer of the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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William Bradford (printer, born 1663)

William Bradford (May 20, 1663 – May 23, 1752) was an early American colonial printer and publisher in British America.

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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters".

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William Franklin

William Franklin (22 February 1730 – 17 November 1813) was an American-born attorney, soldier, politician, and colonial administrator.

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William Hilliard (publisher)

William Hilliard (1778–1836) was a publisher and bookseller in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 19th-century.

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William Penn

William Penn (–) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era.

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William Temple Franklin

William Temple Franklin Jr, known as Temple Franklin, (February 22, 1760 – May 25, 1823) was an American diplomat and real estate speculator who is best known for his involvement with the American diplomatic mission in France during the American Revolutionary War.

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Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_Franklin

Also known as Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin, The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin.

, Ontario, Pacifism, Pamphlet, Paris, Patent, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Poor Richard's Almanack, Privy Council (United Kingdom), Proprietary colony, Quakers, Regiment, Religion, Richard Steele, Royal Society, San Marino, California, Self-made man, Silence Dogood, Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet, Smallpox, Street, The New-England Courant, The Saturday Evening Post, The Spectator (1711), Thomas Bond (American physician), Thomas Denham, Thomas Penn, Twyford, Hampshire, United States Postmaster General, Variety (magazine), William Bradford (printer, born 1663), William Dean Howells, William Franklin, William Hilliard (publisher), William Penn, William Temple Franklin, Yale University.

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1818 non-fiction books

1868 non-fiction books

Books about Benjamin Franklin

Works by Benjamin Franklin

References