[1] Keimer and his sister had come the year before from London, where he had learned his trade; both were ardent members of the fanatic band of "French prophets." He proposed founding a new sect with the help of Franklin, who after leaving his shop ridiculed him for his long square beard and for keeping the seventh day. Keimer settled in the Barbadoes about 1730; and in 1731 began to publish at Bridgetown the semi-weekly _Barbadoes Gazette_. Selections from it called _Caribbeana_ (1741) and _A Brand Plucked from the Burning, Exemplified in the Unparalleled Case of Samuel Keimer_ (1718) are from his pen. He died about 1738. [2] The meeting between Franklin, the type of the shrewd, cool provincial, and Braddock, a blustering, blundering, drinking British soldier, is dramatically portrayed by Thackeray in the 9th chapter of _The Virginians_. [3] Many questions (about 20 of the first 25) were put by his friends to draw out what he wished to be known. [4] The house is familiar from the drawing of it by Victor Hugo. [5] Many of these portraits bore inscriptions, the most famous of which was Turgot's line, "Eripuit fulmen coelo sceptrumque tyrannis." [6] Notably in a pamphlet comparing the Jews and the Anti-Federalists. [7] William Franklin served on the Canadian frontier with Pennsylvania troops, becoming captain in 1750; was in the post-office in 1754-1756; went to England with his father in 1758; was admitted to legal practice in 1758; in 1763, recommended by Lord Fairfax, became governor of New Jersey; he left the Whig for the Tory party; and in the War of Independence was a faithful loyalist, much to the pain and regret of his father, who, however, was reconciled to him in part in 1784. He was held as a prisoner from 1776 until exchanged in 1778; and lived four years in New York, and during the remainder of his life in England with an annual pension of L800 from the crown. [8] For the prevention of counterfeiting continental paper money Franklin long afterwards suggested the use on the different denominations of different leaves, having noted the infinite variety of leaf venation. [9] "Seventy-five editions of it have been printed in English, fifty-six in French, eleven in German and nine in Italian. It has been translated into Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Welsh, Polish, Gaelic, Russian, Bohemian, Dutch, Catalan, Chinese, modern Greek and phonetic writing. It has been printed at least four hundred times, and is to-day as popular as ever."--P. L. Ford, in _The Many-Sided Franklin_ (1899). [10] Both Swift and Franklin made sport of the typical astrologer almanack-maker.