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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Ben Franklin had invested in a stocky enterprise involving an Indian grant of land and some of the richest and most influential British. It was a company called the Grand Ohio Company which was the zenith of Franklin's renown in Britain among his contemporaries and would take his often enemy and sometime friend Lord Hillsborough to the nadir of his own position. Hillsborough took on these investors including the very rich Richard and Thomas Walpole to thwart Franklin's business scheme. The king even stepped in to get the Grand Ohio Company's grant approved which it was. The problem is that events in Boston and elsewhere doomed the company for which Franklin had fought so hard. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401804378.html You can just see Franklin's work in this YouTube video if his Grand Ohio Company plan had been successful. We would probably have a State named Vandalia there however. Wonder if we would have been hearing more gourd banjos? Banks of the Ohio. - YouTube |
Franklin did not
yield in his fight to save the friendship between the colonies and Mother England. In 1772, he had mistakenly
hitched his wagon to someone who would steer it right into very dangerous ground when he sent some letters he received from a unnamed source to Thomas Cushing, one of his Massachusetts supporters and Speaker of the MA Assembly. Cushing was instructed by Franklin that these letters were not for the publication as they were from Governor Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts. The Hutchinson letters would come to have a great
stigma attached to them when they were published by John and Samuel Adams. Governor Hutchinson had advised on how to subdue the unrest in the colonies. Franklin had thought that by privately showing how misguided men like Hutchinson were he and his followers could save the colonies from going to war. Instead, what Franklin was
afraid would happen did. The Hutchinson letters pushed the Massachusetts Assembly to pass a resolution declaring that it was not subservient to Parliament.
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