1747-1748 GILBERT TENNENT. The Consistancy of Defensive War - Benjamin Franklin and American Revolution. Autograph which meant that he was

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1747-1748 GILBERT TENNENT. The Consistancy of Defensive War - Benjamin Franklin and American Revolution. Autograph which meant that he wasA very scarce item indeed, not offered at auction since 1946. During the 1740's, Benjamin Franklin sensed the vulnerability of Pennsylvania as a then frontier state. Native American raids and kidnappings were usual events. With no real centralized military to defend them, Franklin set about to establish a volunteer Philadelphia Pennsylvania militia called the Defense Association. Many of the Quakers of Pennsylvania, most pacifists theologically,