N'afọ 1730 ma ọ bụ 1731, a nabatara Franklin n'ụlọ obibi Masonic dị na mpaghara ahụ. Ọ ghọrọ onye isi ukwu na 1734, na-egosi ọganihu ngwa ngwa ya na Pennsylvania. N'otu afọ ahụ, ọ dezigharịrị ma bipụta akwụkwọ Masonic mbụ na America, mbipụta nke James Anderson's Constitutions of the Free-Masons. Ọ bụ odeakwụkwọ nke St. John's Lodge na Philadelphia site na 1735 ruo 1738. Franklin nọgidere na-abụ onye Freemason ruo oge ndụ ya niile. Ajụjụ: Onye dere Free-Masons Constitution?
James Anderson