FRANKLIN, the name of several counties in America, such as Franklin county in Pennsylvania, computed to contain 800 square miles, or 512,000 acres. It contains 11 townships, and 15,655 inhabitants. Franklin, a county in Kentucky; the name of one in Halifax, of one in Virginia, and of another in Georgia, which contains 1041 inhabitants, including 156 slaves. It is also the name of a township in Massachusetts; of one in Pennsylvania, another in New York, and of another in Connecticut,
Connecticut, as well as of a small isle at the mouth of St George's river.