![]() In 1731, he established the first circulation library in the United States and, in 1743≤4, the American Philosophical Society. A year later, he returned to Philadelphia, and by 1730, he had been appointed public printer for Pennsylvania. His privately printed "A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain" (1725) introduced him to leading Deists and other intellectuals in London. They went to England, where he hoped to purchase printing equipment, but he was soon deserted by Keith and again turned to printing for a livelihood. He went to Philadelphia in 1723, where he was befriended by William Keith, Governor of Pennsylvania, who offered to help Franklin get started in business. James was later the publisher of the New England Courant, where Franklins first articles, "The Dogood Papers," were published before he was seventeen. When he was twelve, his father apprenticed him to his half brother James as a printer. ![]() Benjamin Franklin (1706≩0) was born in Boston. ![]()
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