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During his career, Franklin served as official printer to the colonies of Pennsylvania and Delaware. It was his responsibility to print the Government documents of his day. These included the proceedings of the respective colonial assemblies, as well as the laws they passed. One such work that is particularly well printed appeared in 1740, A Collection of Charters and Other Publick Acts relating to the Province of Pennsylvania. It is one of his many folio-sized documents, pamphlet bound. In this capacity, he well illustrates the pre- Independence pattern of colonial printing of official documents.
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Franklin illustrated this point by recounting an exchange between the commissioners of Virginia and the Iroquois at the 1744 Lancaster treaty council. The account of the treaty, written by Conrad Weiser, reported that the Virginia commissioners asked the Iroquois to send a few of their young men to a college in Williamsburg (probably William and Mary) where "they would be well provided for, and instructed in the Learning of the White People." The Iroquois took the matter under advisement for a day (to be polite, Franklin indicated) and answered the Virginia commissioners July 4, the same day that Canassatego advised the colonists to form a union. Canassatego answered for the Iroquois a few minutes after his advice regarding the union:
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In 1753 Franklin was made deputy postmaster general for all the colonies. At the time he took office weeks were required for mail to travel by stagecoach from one part of the country to another. Postage fees were set by weight and distance, and clerks and customers frequently argued about the distance between towns. Franklin ended these arguments. He invented a machine that, attached to the hub of a carriage, measured distance.
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In 1764 the two Deputy Postmasters-General for North America were Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Foxcroft. They made an elaborate survey of the land communications in the hope of bringing such distant colonies as Quebec and the Carolinas into regular connection with New York. Governor Murray in Canada and the merchants up the St. Lawrence wanted a monthly [coastal] service from New York immediately following the arrival of the packet-boat.
Franklin vigorously opposed slavery being allowed in the colonies. He ... found it preposterous that woman had no education beyond learning to read. To these, and many other controversial issues, Franklin had often met resistance from other Junto members.
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