371Editorial Note on Franklin’s Accounts, 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Boutard was paid for the previous year’s beer account. Cabaret supplied paper and ink throughout the period,
372Editorial Note on Franklin’s Accounts, 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Two quarts of beer were
purchased per month, on average. Bottles of wine from Frontignan and Málaga were bought,
usually four at a time, and a dozen bottles of “vin de la cottes Rottie” (the côtes du
Rhône). Finck...
373Editorial Note on Franklin’s Accounts, 1780 (Franklin Papers)
furnishes 150 bottles of beer on the 12th, and Franklin orders 50 bottles of champagne on the 19th.
374Fragments of a Pamphlet on the Stamp Act, [January 1766] (Franklin Papers)
...Trade, but in North America was become one of the Necessaries of Life, being the common Sweetning used in the Food of the poorer Sort, and universally a principal Ingredient in their common Beer, gave also a general Dissatisfaction. 3° The Trade too, which had been carried on with the foreign Plantations, (whence Money, and Commodities that being carried to Europe might be turned into...
375Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
...presented in the window of a house, at a little distance. The best likeness I have yet seen of him, so much like him that one could hardly distinguish it from life—excepting for the situation, over a beer-house, a place he never frequents” (Edes,
376Editorial Note on the Founding of the Post Office, 26 July 1775 (Franklin Papers)
); to Elias Beers for New Haven, Sept. 25, 1775 (Mrs. Norman H. Pearson, Hamden, Conn.); to
to W. P. Beers, 18 Apr. 1807
378Editorial Note: Reports on Mediterranean Trade and Algerine Captives (Jefferson Papers)
, p. 17–19, citing G. L. Beers,