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Anticipating that the British ministry were about to abolish the proprietary governments in America, Penn, to oppose this, sails for England and never visits America again......Nov. 1, 1701 Thomas Rutter establishes the first iron works in Pennsylvania, near Pottstown, 30 miles from Philadelphia......1716 Penn dies at Rushcombe, Buckinghamshire, England, aged seventy-four years......July 30, 1718 Andrew S. Bradford establishes the American weekly mercury at Philadelphia......Dec. 22, 1719 Pennsylvania puts in practice the paper-money loan system by the issue of £ 15,000 in 1722, followed by an additional issue of £ 30,000......March, 1723 Franklin, seventeen years old, arrives in Philadelphia......October, 1723 Pennsylvania Gazette started by Franklin......Sept. 28, 1729 Franklin founds the Library of Philadelphia, forty persons subscribing forty shillings each and agreeing to pay ten shillings annually......Nov. 8, 1731 Franklin commences the publication o