For any trivia question that asks, “who was the first American to do X,” answering Ben Franklin is always a good guess. He was a true renaissance man, who was the most internationally renown colonist (and eventually American) of his day. Of course, he was complex, but he ended up on the right side of history, in pretty much all respects. All of the commentators more-or-less agree with that (some a bit more grudgingly than others) when appraising the Founding Father’s life and legacy in Ken Burns’ two-part documentary “Benjamin Franklin.” Franklin is indelibly associated with Philadelphia, but he was born in Boston and maintained family ties to the New England city, which was a major hub of revolutionary “Patriot” sentiment (along with the “City of Brotherly Love”). In fact, Franklin was one of the few Founding Fathers who traveled widely through the original 13 colonies, due to his work …