To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Wharton, [10 November? 1769]: résumé
From Samuel Wharton
AL: American Philosophical Society
[Dated merely Friday afternoon; probably November 10, 1769.4 A note in the third person, to send Franklin the American newspapers received that day in the New York mail. Has heard nothing by the packet; expects a letter from “his Friend” by Capt. Jeffries, who was to sail from Philadelphia on Oct. 7.]
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
4. A New York mail reached London on Nov. 10; London Chron., Nov. 9–11, 1769. The snow Britannia, Capt. James Jeffries master, cleared Philadelphia on Oct. 5; Pa. Gaz., Oct. 5, 1769.