Johnson, Franklin, and Smith met in Stratford in June 1753. They planned two new-model colleges: Johnson would open King's College in New York City, and Franklin and Smith would open the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania). William Smith immediately after the meeting left for London to raise funds and receive Anglican orders. Franklin and the board of trustees would appoint him Provost of the College of Philadelphia when he returned. Johnson with the help of his step-son Benjamin Nicoll, his former students - who were now powerful merchants - the De Launcey-Nicoll "Popular" downstate majority party in the New York Assembly, and the clergy and vestry of Trinity Church, New York City, created a board of Governors for the new college, ensuring that it had an Anglican majority though it included Dutch Reformed Church and Presbyterian Church members. The assembly voted that a lottery be established to raise funds for the new college.