At the conference of 1769 two preachers, Richard Boardman and Joseph Pilmoor, volunteered to go out to take charge of the work.
On his return he assisted his father in surveying the Stockton & Darlington and Liverpool && Manchester lines, but in 1824 he accepted an engagement in South America to take charge of the engineering operations of the Colombian Mining Association of London.
In 1616 he returned to Louvain, to take charge of the college of St Pulcheria, a hostel for Dutch students of theology.
The new assembly sent Franklin again to England as its special agent to take charge of another petition for a change of government, which, however, came to nothing.
Particular Christians were designated to take charge of the services, and orders of worship were framed out of which grew ultimately elaborate liturgies.