. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... riheir common defence. Alliance with the Six Nations. For the purpose of carrying out the wishesof the home government, a convention ofdelegates from seven of the colonies assem-bled at Albany, New York, on the nineteenthof June, 1754. The Virginia government wasrepresented by the presiding officer, Delan-cey, the lieutenant-governor of New York ; but New Hampshire, Massachusetts, RhodeIsland, Connecticut, New York and Mary-land were represented by their own
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... riheir common defence. Alliance with the Six Nations. For the purpose of carrying out the wishesof the home government, a convention ofdelegates from seven of the colonies assem-bled at Albany, New York, on the nineteenthof June, 1754. The Virginia government wasrepresented by the presiding officer, Delan-cey, the lieutenant-governor of New York ; but New Hampshire, Massachusetts, RhodeIsland, Connecticut, New York and Mary-land were represented by their own first object of this convention was tosecure the friendship of the powerful con-federacy of the Six Nations, on the northern19 border, and this was successfully accom-plished. The leading man of this convention wasBenjamin Franklin. He was a native of Bos-ton, and the son of a tallow chandler. Whilestill a youth he had removed to Philadelphia,and by the force of his own genius had risenfrom poverty and obscurity to great prom-inence among the public men of Pennsylva-nia, and the literary and scientific men of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. He had chosen the avocation of a printer ;and by his industry, energy and integrity hadaccumulated property enough to make himindependent. He was among the most activemen in America in promoting the advance-ment of literary, scientific and benevolentinstitutions, and had already won a world-wide reputation by his discoveries in science,and especially by his investigations in elec-tricity and lightning. He was not inexperi-enced in public affairs. He had served as 290 THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. clerk to the general assembly of Pennsylva-nia, as postmaster of Philadelphia, as a mem-ber of theprovincial assembly of Pennsylvania,and in 1753 had been appointed by the kingpostmaster-general of the American each of these positions he had served withdistinction, and now, at the ripe age of forty-eight, he had come to take part
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