January 17th, 1706 Abiah and Josiah Franklin were blessed with the birth of a baby boy, a boy who would grow up to be a great man. A writer, an inventor, a scientist, a diplomat, and a man that would play a major role in shaping the world he lived in .His name was Benjamin Franklin.
Josiah was a Englishman who moved to Boston in 1683. He was a candle and soap maker and the father to seventeen children. In his life he had two wives, one of whom was Abiah. She was the mother to ten of the children. …
