It is 1722 and 14 year old Benjamin Franklin sits at his desk in Boston, writing a letter to a local newspaper, The New England Current.

The paper was founded by his brother James, a year earlier, and Young Franklin is working there as an apprentice printer.

He has ambitions as a writer though and this is not the first letter he has penned to the current.

His brother has so far refused to publish any of them, but this time Ben has a plan.

At the bottom of this letter he signs not his own name, but that of a fictitious middle-aged widow,

named in honor of his brother's censorship,

Silence Do Good.

It's an early sign of rebellion from one of the strongest advocates for an independent United States.

It was a choice that likely changed Franklin's life

and the history of the nation.

The letter which began to explain Do Good's life story

was printed and emboldened Franklin kept writing them making fun of

colonial America and touching on ideas such as citizens rights and freedom of speech

silence do goods correspondence becomes the talk of Boston, and only after 14 letters does Franklin finally come clean.

His brother James was not as impressed by Franklin's deception as the wider New England public, and he constantly harassed and even beat him.

So much so that Franklin fled Boston, ending up in Philadelphia, where the story of the founding

father who would become known as the first American History here.

When we speak of Benjamin Franklin, we typically think of the key in the kite, the revolution,

poor Richard's almanac, the Declaration of Independence.

But before these accomplished items of his brilliant resume, there was all of what came before, his young life as he blazed a trail up a very steep mountain.

What were the early experiences of a future founding father?

Where did he go? Who did he know? In so many ways it's the common story of an American

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