BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

BY

JAMES PARTON,

AUTIOR OF “LIFE AND TIMES OF AARON BURR,” “LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON,"

“ GENERAL BUTLER IN NEW ORLEANS," ETC.

"I will follow the right cause even to the stake: but without the
stake if I can."--MONTAIGNR.

VOL. I.

NEW YORK:
MASON BROTHERS, NO. 7 MERCER ST.
Boston.: MASON & HAMLIN; PHILADELPHIA : J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co.;

CHICAGO: S. C. GRIGGS & Co.
LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., 60 PATERNOSTER ROW.

1864.

08947-B.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864,

BY MASON BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the

Southern District of New York.

C. A. ALVORD, STEREOTYP'ER AND PRINTER,