LIFE

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

NOW FIRST EDITED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
AND FROM HIS PRINTED CORRESPONDENCE

AND OTHER WRITINGS,

BY

JOHN BIGELOW.

"Plurimæ consentiunt gentes populi primarium fuisse virum."
CICERO DE SENECTUTE (Catonis), § 61.

fifth edition, revised and enrICHED.

ILLUSTRATED.

VOL. III.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
LONDON: 16 JOHN ST., ADELPHI.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1974, by

JOHN BIGELOW,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington,

Copyright, 1893, by John Bigelow.

Copyright, 1898, by John Bigelow.

Copyright, 1902, by John Bigelow.

COPYRIGHT, 1905, by J. B. Lippincott ComPANY.

COPYRIGHT, 1916, by GRACE BIGELOW.

LIFE OF FRANKLIN-VOL. III.

Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.

(From the chevillet engraving of the Duplessis portrait of 1778, in possession of Miss