Statistics for occurrence #1 of “B. Franklin” in chapter 24 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.:

... B. Franklin
Great Britain Centres in itself power over its Colonies. —Hillsborough's Administration of the Colonies con-cluded....
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
W. B. Franklin 1,080 0 18 0 0 user votes
William B. Franklin 1,056 0 30 0 0 user votes
B. Franklin 172 104 0 0 0 user votes
L. B. Franklin 16 0 0 0 0 user votes
B. B. Franklin 10 0 0 0 0 user votes
T. B. Franklin 5 0 1 0 0 user votes
O. B. Franklin 3 0 1 0 0 user votes
D. B. Franklin 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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