1Proposal for the Great Seal of the United States, [before 14 August 1776] (Franklin Papers)
On July 4, 1776, Franklin, John Adams, and Jefferson were named..., pp. 22–4.
2Franklin and James Wilson to Jasper Yeates, 4 July 1776: résumé (Franklin Papers)
<Philadelphia, July 4, 1776: The Congress has appointed you a commissioner of... ...on July 20...July
3Franklin and James Wilson to John Montgomery, 5 July 1776: résumé (Franklin Papers)
<The letter, dated Philadelphia, July 5, 1776 is identical in wording with that to... ..., July...
4The Committee of Secret Correspondence to Peter Parker, 10 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
(Buffalo, N.Y., 1911), pp. 421–4....; see the note on the committee to Deane above, July 8, 1776.
5To George Washington from Benjamin Franklin, 22 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
...warships. “I will,” he wrote the committee on 4 Sept. 1775, “make a Machine by the help... ...4...
6Revisions of the Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights, [between 29 July 1776 and 15 August 1776] (Franklin Papers)
...a considerable part in the revision. On July 18 the convention appointed a drafting committee...
7Sketch of Propositions for a Peace, [after 26 September 1776 and before 25 October 1776] (Franklin Papers)
4. The knowledge of there being powers given to the......to Parliament” above, under July 21...
8The Committee of Secret Correspondence to Silas Deane, 1 October 1776 (Franklin Papers)
...d take the whole Fleet there consisting of between 4 and 500 Sail of Men War, Transports,...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Erskine, 16 October 1776 (Franklin Papers)
above, July 4, 1776. We assume, knowing nothing about his movements,...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Silas Deane, 4 December 1776 (Franklin Papers)
...83–5; Bancroft’s account with Deane, Jan. 1777-July 1779: Conn. Hist. Soc...., 293–4....