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Although not a church-goer, Benjamin Franklin supported a pragmatic religion that favored good works and charity more than simple faith and hope. “I mean real good works, works of kindness, charity, mercy, and public spirit; not holiday-keeping, sermon-reading or hearing, performing church ceremonies, or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments, despised even by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.” Franklin was famous for engaging in innumerable civic and charitable causes throughout his adult life–and into the afterlife, with his perpetual fund for young tradesmen in Boston (as established in his will).
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Franklin joined 550 volunteers to build forts on the North Western Frontier, in December. He pledged his personal property in order that supplies may be raised for Braddock's army. Clearly this was in the belief that he would be repaid. (See 1757 -Autobiography]
The village of Ecton was the Franklin family home for centuries. Franklin visited Ecton in 1758 to search out his family roots - but unfortunately his uncle Thomas had already died in 1702 and he no surviving relatives there.
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An avid swimmer, Franklin was drawn to water at a young age and consistently promoted the healthy benefits of the exercise in his later writings. At the ripe old age of 11 he invented a pair of fins that, unlike today's modern flippers, were strapped to the swimmer's hands to help make each stroke more efficient. His contributions to the sport led to his posthumous induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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From 1730 to 1748 Franklin worked hard in the printing business and became very successful. He was made official printer for Pennsylvania. By 1734 he was public printer for New Jersey and Delaware as well. Later he became Maryland's official printer.
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At 79, with a large stone in his bladder that made travel by carriage an agony, Franklin was carried to the port of Le Havre in a litter. Back in Philadelphia he lived quietly but continued to take some part in public life. His most important service was as a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
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