was greatly impressed with his speaking ability and estimated that the preacher could make his voice heard by 30,000 people!  Franklin built an auditorium for Whitefield to preach in at Philadelphia, which later became the foundation of the University of Pennsylvania.
    On his seventh evangelistic tour (1769-1770), Whitefield became ill.  Pneumonia developed, and on September 30, 1770, he died in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he was buried.
    Whitefield and his friend John Wesley had disagreed on