[Footnote i-489: See similar expression in letter to Mme Brillon, cited in J. M. Stifler, _The Religion of Benjamin Franklin_, 55-6.] [Footnote i-490: _Writings_, III, 135.] _CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE_ 1706. Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, January 17 (January 6, 1705, O. S.). 1714-16. After a year in Boston Grammar School is sent to learn writing and arithmetic in school kept by George Brownell, from which, after a year, he is taken to assist his father, Josiah, a candlemaker. 1717. James Franklin returns from England, following apprenticeship as printer. 1718. Benjamin is apprenticed to brother James. 1718-23. Period of assiduous reading in Anthony Collins, Shaftesbury, Locke, Addison and Steele, Cotton Mather, Bunyan, Defoe, etc. 1719. Writes and hawks ballads of the "Grub-Street" style, "The Lighthouse Tragedy" and "The Taking of Teach the Pirate." 1721-23. Aids brother in publishing the _New England Courant_. During 1722-23 in charge of paper after James is declared objectionable by the authorities. 1722. His _Dogood Papers_ printed anonymously in the _New England Courant_. 1723. Breaks his indentures and leaves for New York; eventually arrives in Philadelphia. 1723-24. Employed by Samuel Keimer, a printer in Philadelphia. 1724. Visits Cotton Mather and Governor Burnet (New York). Meets James Ralph, Grub-Street pamphleteer, historian, and poet in the Thomson tradition. Patronized by Governor Keith. Leaves for London in November on the _London-Hope_ to buy type, etc., for printing shop to be set up in his behalf by Keith. Upon arrival he and Ralph take lodgings in Little Britain. 1725-26. Employed in Palmer's and Watts's printing houses. 1725. Publishes _A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain_. One result of this is acquaintance with Lyons, author of _The Infallibility of Human Judgement_. Through him Franklin meets Bernard Mandeville and Dr. Henry Pemberton, who is preparing a third edition of Sir Isaac Newton's _Principia_. Is received by Sir Hans Sloane in Bloomsbury Square. Conceives of setting up a swimming school in London. 1726. On July 21, with Mr. Denham, merchant and Quaker, leaves for Philadelphia on the _Berkshire_. Between July 22 and October 11 writes _Journal of a Voyage from London to Philadelphia_. Employed by Denham until latter's death in 1727. 1727. Ill of pleurisy and composes his epitaph. After recovery returns to Keimer's printing house. Forms his Junto club. Employed in Burlington, New Jersey, on a job of printing paper money. 1728. Forms partnership with Hugh Meredith. Writes _Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion_, and _Rules for a Club_--his Junto club "Constitution."