There were a variety of topics in my latest reading of George Marsden's Jonathan Edwards: A Life:
Edwards' power struggles with the Williams at Stockbridge, as Edwards
justified his stubbornness on religious grounds; the wars between the
English in America, on the one hand, and the French and Native
Americans, on the other hand, as Native Americans felt that the English
were trying to displace them; how some regarded the wars as God's
judgment on the English, whereas Edwards had a more optimistic outlook
(even though he viewed setbacks as God's judgment, and was somewhat
sensitive to the concerns of Native Americans); how Edwards' daughter
Esther was a contemplative woman who did not care for talking about
dresses and fashion with other women (ironically, I was reading this
while watching the movie Miss Potter,
which presented author Beatrix Potter as somewhat similar); and how
Princeton wanted Edwards to be its President, but Edwards was reluctant
because he didn't feel he had the social skills for that position, plus
he wanted to focus on his writing projects. But Edwards became its
President. It was good that Edwards was actually wanted somewhere,
considering the times when he was intensely disliked (i.e., at
Northampton).
There was a time when Edwards visited Philadelphia,
and Marsden speculates that Edwards may have visited Benjamin Franklin
at that time, though there is no evidence that such a meeting took
place. If it had, Marsden says, they could have talked about Edwards'
works, which Franklin had read, as well as their mutual acquaintance
with evangelist George Whitfield.