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He is born, in Boston, and baptized in the Old South Church.
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At the age of eight, enters the Grammar School.
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Breaks his indenture and removes to Philadelphia; obtaining employment in Keimer's printing-office; abandons vegetarianism.
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Returns to Philadelphia; after serving as clerk in a dry goods store, becomes manager of Keimer's printing-house.
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Awarded the Copley medal for this discovery, and elected a member of the Royal Society; receives the degree of M.A. from Yale and Harvard.
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Pledges his personal property in order that supplies may be raised for Braddock's army; obtains a grant from the Assembly in aid of the Crown Point expedition; carries through a bill establishing a voluntary militia; is appointed Colonel, and takes the field.
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Secures from the Privy Council, by a compromise, a decision obliging the Proprietary estates to contribute to the public revenue.
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Defeated by the Penn faction for reelection to the Assembly; sent to England as agent for Pennsylvania.
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Examined before the House of Commons relative to the passage of the Stamp Act; appointed agent of Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Georgia; visits Gottingen University.
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Placed on the committee to draft a Declaration of Independence; chosen president of the Constitutional Committee of Pennsylvania; sent to France as agent of the colonies.
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Returns to America; is chosen President of Pennsylvania; reelected 1786.
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April 17, dies. His grave is in the churchyard at Fifth and Arch streets, Philadelphia. Editor.
