ABSTRACT
Franklin could think of himself as English, for his father had come from England as a young man and had close relations there. They had more freedom than the colonists of any other nation and, in some ways, as much as Britons living at home. Of course the colonists had looked forward to moving into the lands on their western borders as soon as the French moved out, and quite a lot of them did so, Grenville or no Grenville; but they did it illegally. Grenville's purpose was to let disputes between Indians and colonists die down and then bring forward Government schemes for settling the new land, but fur traders and land companies were disappointed and angry. The colonists declared that they were subject, not to Grenville or Parliament, but to the King: and that if the King wanted money he should appeal to the assemblies to raise it for him in their own way.
