 It was demolished in 1817 and is now the site of the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds.His chief importance is as founder and editor of his almanacs, the publishing of which his son, Nathaniel third (a Harvard graduate and physician), continued for ten years after his father's death.The father issued the first number in 1725, three years before James Franklin started his in Rhode Island and eight years before Benjamin Franklin inaugurated "Poor Richard's Almanack".