Can somebody please help me ASAP? This is timed and I'm stuck.

For each one, it is the same. This is what you have to do: Key the following sentences. Type your own condensed phrase of essential words in the space beneath the sentence.

1. It was natural that a man like Franklin should be sought out for public office.

2. He began on the local level as Justice of the Peace, Philadelphia Postmaster, and Clerk of the General Assembly of Philadelphia.

3. In the troubled years before the French and Indian War he wrote numerous tracts, such as 'Plain Truth' (1747) and 'Plan for Settling the Western Colonies' (1756) which dealt with Pennsylvania problems.

4. In 1757 Franklin was sent to England to serve as agent of the Pennsylvania legislature.

5. He remained there, except for a year's respite in 1763-1764, until 1775.

6. During those years he became an agent for several colonies.

7. ....gradually he came to be the spokesman for all the colonies.

8. To the English he was as close to an American Ambassador as there was