Signed: B. Franklin. Dated: Philadelphia, Nov. 5, 1764.

"In the local elections of 1764, Franklin was defeated in his election to the Assembly. His friends, having control of that body, at once voted his appointment as agent of the province to England. John Dickinson, David McCanaughy, John Montgomery, Isaac Saunders, George Taylor, William Allen, Thomas Willing, George Bryan, Amos Strettell, and Henry Keppele, at once united in a protest against this action, which was published in the Pennsylvania Journal of Nov. 1st, 1764." cf. P.L. Ford, Franklin bibliography, Brooklyn, 1889, p. 123.

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