F _Fearnot_, privateer, 159 First Continental Congress, 119, 120 Fisher, Daniel, 68 Forbes, Brigadier General, 71 Fort Duquesne, 65, 66, 70-71 Fothergill, Dr. John, 58, 77, 89 Fox, Charles James, 150 France and the French, 47, 61, 64, 65, 67, 82, 93, 103, 126, 133-35, 143-54, 157-64, 165-76, 184-85, 187 Franklin, Abiah (Benjamin’s mother), 9, 40 Franklin, Benjamin, agricultural interests, 57; ambassador to France, 158-63, 166-76; birth, 9; book publisher, 42; boyhood, 9-17; Braddock and, 65-67; children, 38, 44; civic improvements suggested by, 46-47, 56-57; clerk to Pennsylvania Assembly, 41; commissioner to France, 141, 143-54; continental trips, 81, 101, 103-04; courtship, 20, 34, 169; death, 186; Declaration of Independence and, 137-38; delegate to Constitutional Convention, 179-81; delegate to Second Continental Congress, 124-31, 132-41; education, 10, 40; educational proposals, 45-46; electrical experiments, 51-56, 58-60, 100; England visited by, 24-26, 74-83, 91-121; founder of American Philosophical Society, 44-45; France visited by, 103; friendships in England, 100-10; funeral of, 186; honors, 60, 79, 81, 166-67, 177, 186-87; Hutchinson letters and, 112-13, 115-18; illnesses, 77-78, 93, 107, 137, 163, 164, 171, 183, 184, 185; inventions, 11, 43-44, 45, 80-81, 178; journey to Philadelphia, 18-19; library for public established by, 34-35; marriage, 34; Masonic leader, 35, 56; meeting with Richard Howe, 140-41; military career, 68-71; musical interests, 10, 81; old age, 166-76, 177-86; peace negotiations with England, 163; Penn family and, 76-77, 80, 89-90, 91-92; Pennsylvania Hospital established by, 57; personal appearance, 11, 20, 42-43, 75, 111, 143-44, 153, 181-82; postmaster-general of the colonies, 63, 118, 125; postmaster of Philadelphia, 41; printer in Philadelphia, 19-24, 29-30, 31-37, 40, 42, 47; printer’s apprentice, 12-17; publisher of the Courant in Boston, 16; religious beliefs, 35, 180; retirement, 47-48; scientific interests, 26-27, 33, 49, 51-56, 57-60, 78, 100, 108-10, 121-22, 171-74, 182; Stamp Act and, 92-99; summoned before King’s Privy Council, 116-17; vegetarian diet, 14, 18; verse-making, 13-14, 43; virtues, thirteen, 38-40, 41; Voltaire and, 157; will of, 183 Franklin, Benjamin (Benjamin’s uncle), 10 Franklin, Deborah Read (Benjamin’s wife), 20, 24, 25, 28, 34, 37, 43-44, 68, 69-70, 71, 74-75, 78, 84, 90, 95, 99, 101, 105, 107, 121 Franklin, Elizabeth (William’s wife), 85 Franklin, Francis Folger (Benjamin’s son), 38, 41, 44