Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Benjamin Franklin” in chapter 2 of Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899:
...e city of New York, in Marketfield Street, near the Battery.
My father was of Rhode Island birth and descent.
One of his grandmothers was the beautiful Catharine Ray to whom are addressed some of Benjamin Franklin 's published letters.
His father attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the war of the Revolution, being himself the son of Governor Samuel Ward, of Rhode Island, married to a daughter of Gov...
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