Congress immediately appropriated funds for a memorial and tasked Benjamin Franklin with its execution. A national memorial service was held in all the colonies.
Exhumed, June, 1818
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Congress immediately appropriated funds for a memorial and tasked Benjamin Franklin with its execution. A national memorial service was held in all the colonies. Governor Stephen van Rensselaer received permission to move the remains from Quebec to New York. The procession traveled on the Hudson River via boat.
Reinterred, July 8, 1818
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Over 5000 people viewed the ceremony at St Paul's Chapel in New York.