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When the date of Leeds' supposed passing had come and gone, Franklin published Leeds's obituary anyway. When challenged by the very much alive Leeds, Franklin insisted that Leeds had in fact died, but that he was being impersonated by an inferior publisher. When Leeds actually died in 1738, Franklin
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who fell out with the local Quaker community when he began publishing the almanac in 1687. Daniel Leeds was in born 1651 in Essex, England; he died in New Jersey in 1720. Daniel Leeds migrated in 1676. In 1687 Daniel Leeds published an almanac that than astrology signs. He eventually migrated from
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