CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I . 



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Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Thompson. Ancestry and 

 Family of Thompson. His Birth. Death of his Father. 



His early Education. His own Account of his early Years. 



His Friends and Guardians. His School Days. Appren- 

 ticeship at Salem. Accident. Return to Woburn. Memo- 

 randa. Apprenticeship in Boston. Medical Student. School- 

 Teacher. Marriage. Military Commission. Farmer. . i 



CHAPTER II. 



Revolutionary Portents. Division of Parties. Governor Went- 

 worth. Thompson's Visits to Portsmouth. Military Review. 

 Intimacy and Favor with the Governor. Commissioned 

 Major. Jealousies and Enmities. Accused of Toryism. 

 Meditated Outrage. Flight from Concord. Refuge in Wo- 

 burn, Charlestown, and Boston. His Petition and Examina- 

 tion. Letters to Rev. Mr. Walker. Visits the Camp. Seeks 

 Employment. Departure. Newport. Secret Residence in 

 Boston. Sent to England. Confiscation of his Property. 

 Proscribed. . . . . . . . . . -55 



CHAPTER III. 



Major Thompson's Mission to Lord G. Germaine. His Services 

 to the Ministry. Made Secretary of Georgia. Explores 

 London. Objects of his Interest. Experiments. Visit to 

 Bath. Guest of Lord George. Fire-Arms and Gunpow- 



