FRANKLIN. 
done from a fen 
the wah ciion oe M Me Hutchinton, a moit: ¥ 
was pronounced againft him by Mr. Wedderburn, la 
with all the abufe which too frequently characterizes the 
t time after ons he was 
ré of 
Pen all his efforts 
ain and the colonies ufelefs, he returned to America in 
1775, juft after the commencement of hoftilities, and being 
named one of the delegates of the continental congrefs, he 
1776, he was peta - oe to Canada, to negociaté 
with e of country, perfuade 
them to Gis on the Britith yoke; but the inhabitants of 
Canada had been fo much difguited with a zeal of the 
: me of their 
oo 
im 
ae 
r 
in Sone ain 17 ie he tered upon a correfpondence with 
him on the fubject of ees He was afterwards 
seemed with two others, to w ait upon the Englifh com- 
miffioners, and learn the extent of their powers, but as thefe 
rae went to the setae) pardon upon fubmiffion, he "oined 
colleagues in a them as infufficient. Dr. Frank- 
in was saunas z 
of Pennfylv ania. 
open a Lee eee with France, a 
fixed u that country, and he: 
and defenfive, ti produced an 
en ae and France. Dr. Franklin 
rt: of the —s 
repal 
Havre de Grace, and croffing the En nglith channel, Tanded 
at Newport in the Ifle of Wight, from whence, after a fa- 
warble pallage, he arrived fafe at - Philadelphia, in Sept. 
1785. HH was received amidft the acclamations of a 
er 
vatt and almoft el multitude, who had flocked from - 
all parts to fee him, and who conducted him in triumph to 
his own houfe, where in a few days he was vifited by the 
He was afterw: 
ia 
the affembly of Philadelphia ; but in the year 1788' the in-” 
sy g infirmities of his age obliged him: to afk and obtain 
rmiffion to retire and- fpend the remainder of his life in 
tranquil ity, and on the feventeenth of April 1790 he clofed, 
in ferenity and t telignaligny his ative arid ufeful life, , having 
attained the great age as nee years and three mo nths. 
He left belimnd him 
Philad el phia 
married toa pean a 
was 
alin 
author of: many tracts on eleCinieity, wade ae Peace of. 
red to_ 
_ natural philofophy, ‘as well as on politeal and mifeelanedie 
fubje&ts. he 
ves his other.works, been tranflated' 
into feveral modern eee, .Franklin’s Life by himfelf. 
Prieftley’s Hift. of Ele@ 
“RANKLIN, in rer a county of America, being 
the north-wefternmoft in Vermont, bounded N. by Low 
and W. by lake Champlain. It contains 20° 
and ae Oe ee a county in Pen 
fylvania, bounded N. by Mifflin, N. - by Cumberland, 
ee county: in Maryland, Ww. 
by Bedford county, * W. by Hunterdon.- It i is com=: 
males equal to 512,000 -acres.. 
m rt of the beautiful a rich 
hea gue, oe by the creek ofits name, 
which falls ie Pew k at Williams port in Maryland... 
Iron ore is found in this pee fufficient to ‘furnifh. work 
for"a furnace and forge. The county is divided into 14. 
townthips, — 19,638 inhabitants.—Alfo, a poft-- 
town in ango county, Pennfylvania ; e272. miles trom : 
Wal cone AG, a polt-town of Ohio ; 560 miles from: 
Wabhington.—Alfo, t-town of ndleton county, in 
a po. n € 
Virginia ; 191 miles from Wafhington.—Alfo, a poft-to 
in Willamfon county, Teneflee ; 575 miles from Wathing- - 
ton.—Alfo, a town in Duchefs county, New York, on the: 
Conne&ticut line, 10 miles N.W. of Danbury ; containing 
15. os inhabitants. —Alfo, a seen of Kentucky, bounde d 
N. by — county, N, y Shelby, S.E..-by- 
2b Weslo He contains 4450. inhabit- 
m rI1og are flaves. chief town is. 
—Alfo, a county in Halifax diftrid, orth Sen 
oe estes 8473 inhabitants, of whom yee 
is bounde reenville, S. ei oe ee 
Ww fae S.W. by Wake, and w. 
hief town is Lewi 
N. 
mery, 5. 
E. by Camptell county. ; 
one 1574 pele 
It is generally hilly, and is traverfed on “the N.W. as 
range of the Alleg se! mount ae in 
Georgia, fituated in the upper diftri@, bounded E. and N 
by Tusulo river, which “feparates it from the ftate of South: 
Carolina $ W. ne 
It contains 6859 inhabitants, of whom. 959 
. The court-houfe is 77 miles from Wafhington.— 
a townfhip in Norfolk county, Maflachufets, i in- 
n 1778, and containing toe acres of land,. 
285 inhabitants. It is bounded N. by: Charles river, 
which feparates it from Medway, and lies” 30 miles .S. o 
non n. —Alfo, a {mall ifle at the mouth of. St. George’ $s: 
ver, ‘in Lincoln seer th and ftate of Maine ; four leagues 
fouthward of Thomaiton.—Alfo, a po! town in Delaware - 
ounty, S.W, from, and. gon, Harperefield, and 
. V.. line runs along the fouth- oa bank of the Suf- 
que wnat river Zh town was divide an at of the 
legilature in 1747: contains 1390 inhabitants.—Alfo, a 
vais in Wetooreland county, - ahi — ; 
three others in the fame fate, viz. in York 
. 
ERANKL is 
