But he didn’t always live in the United States.
He traveled widely throughout Europe and spent over a decade living in London.
The basement, which was a windowless room under the garden, contained the remains of28 human bodies.
Benjamin Franklin in London, 1767 byDavid Martin(Photo: via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Police continued the excavation, and 1,200 bone fragments were ultimately pulled from the pit.
Of the remains found, six of them were from children.
The remains of 43 different species of animals were also excavated.
William Hewson byH. Robinson Vandergucht(Photo: via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Many of the bones showed signs of surgical cuts, and one skull even had holes in it.
It’s believed that it wasn’t his doing but that of his houseguest.
It is believed that, during this time, he carried out dissections in the basement.
Depictions of dissections at William Hunter’s anatomy school byT. Rowlandson(Photo: via Wellcome Collection, Public domain)
Many lecturers turned to graverobbers to fill the demand.
Interestingly, this was not illegal.
Depictions of dissections at William Hunter’s anatomy school byT.
Hewson had logged notes about experiments that match up with this evidence.
