Admission of John Mifflin to Library Company, 27 August 1734

Admission of John Mifflin to Library Company7

ADS: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

27th of Augst. 1734

Such of the Directors of the Library Company as approve of John Mifflin’s being admitted a Member are desired to shew their Consent by subscribing their Names hereto

B. Franklin	Hugh Roberts
John Jones Junr	Thos. Hopkinson 1734
Fras. Richardson	Thos. Cadwalader
Wm Rawle	Philip Syng Junr
Thos Godfrey	Wm. Coleman

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. John Mifflin (1715–1759), Quaker merchant; later a member of the Philadelphia Common Council, 1747; alderman, 1751; and member of the Provincial Council, 1755; father of Thomas Mifflin, president of the Continental Congress in 1783. Charles P. Keith, Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania, 1733–1776 (Phila., 1883), p. 362. This note, in BF’s hand, is printed as an example of the procedure followed in admitting members to the Library Company.

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Title: Admission of John Mifflin to Library Company, 27 August 1734
Author: Directors of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 27 August 1734

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Cite as: “Admission of John Mifflin to Library Company, 27 August 1734,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0115. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 1, January 6, 1706 through December 31, 1734, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959, p. 373.]