In 1748, at age 42, Benjamin Franklin retired from printing the Pennsylvania Gazette and turned over the business to his foreman, David Hall. “The detailed partnership deal Franklin drew up would leave him rich enough by most people’s standards: it provided him with half of the shop’s profits for the next eighteen years (through 1766), which would amount to about 650 United Kingdom Pounds annually,” according to Benjamin Franklin (Isaacson, 2003). So, in 1748, the imprint on the back page of Franklin’s Gazette added David Hall and now read “PHILADELPHIA: Printed by B. FRANKLIN, Post-Master, and D. HALL, at the New-Printing-Office, near the Market.”
