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Birth of Benjamin Franklin on Sunday—The Fifteenth Child—God's

Gift—Proposition to Baptize Him the Same Day—Discussion over

It—Baptized on That Day by Doctor Willard—The Church Record—House

in Which He was Born—Josiah's Children—Death of Wife and Second

Marriage—The Folger Family—Name for Uncle Benjamin—Personal

Beauty—Words of Parton—Josiah Took Up Trade of Tallow-chandler—The

Business and Place Described—Sons Apprenticed—Josiah a Good

Musician—Condition of the World When Benjamin was Born in 1706.