where was ben franklin born?
Boston
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 Benjamin Franklin Peale was born October 15 , 1795 , to painter Charles Willson Peale and his second wife , the former Elizabeth de Peyster . As well as pursuing his art , Charles Peale ran a museum of curiosities housed in Philosophical Hall in Philadelphia , home of the American Philosophical Society . The boy was born in the family quarters in the museum . He was given the name Aldrovand , after the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi . 

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 Francis Folger Franklin ( October 20 , 1732 – November 21 , 1736 ) was the eldest son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin by Deborah Read . 

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 Growing into adolescence , he was said to strongly resemble his Hawaiian mother . Robert G. Carter gave a brief description of his appearance in wartime letters first published in 1897 : 

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 Growing into adolescence , he was said to strongly resemble his Hawaiian mother . Robert G. Carter gave a brief description of his appearance in wartime letters first published in 1897 : 

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 Seven years after Francis ' death , Deborah gave birth to Sarah , who was Franklin 's only surviving , legitimate child . In 1772 , Franklin 's sister Jane Franklin Mecom , wrote him with news of his grandsons . Franklin replied that it " brings often afresh to my mind the idea of my son Franky , though now dead thirty @-@ six years , whom I have seldom since seemed equaled in everything , and whom to this day I cannot think of without a sigh . " 
