Ben Franklin Graveyard in his Backyard...

5fish

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Ben Franklin was living in London back in the mid-1700s; in the late 1990s, they were doing work on the house Ben Franklin was living in and found thousands of bone fragments. Was he helping a friend or killing people?


Benjamin Franklin House is a museum in a terraced Georgian house at 36 Craven Street, London, close to Trafalgar Square. It is the last-standing former residence of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The house dates from c. 1730, and Franklin lived and worked there from 1757 to 1774.[1][2] The museum opened to the public on 17 January 2006.[2]


From a one metre wide, one metre deep pit, over 1200 pieces of bone were retrieved and are the remnants of an anatomy school run from the House by William Hewson, son-in-law of Franklin’s landlady, Margaret Stevenson. Hewson, who married Margaret’s daughter Polly in 1770, is best known for his research on blood and the lymphatic system. He isolated the key protein in the blood clotting process, fibrinogen, and called it “coagulable lymph”.

 

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That is a good story! London in that era was a creepy place, it seems, and full of people no one would miss if somebody wanted body parts. Shades of Mary Shelley! I don't think ol' Ben offed anybody or there would be bones in his back yard in America. When the British moved into his house in Philadelphia, they found a lot of odd ball things and an excellent wine cellar - but no bodies!
 
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