1Joseph Galloway to Richard Jackson and Benjamin Franklin, 29 November 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The Merchants of this City, greatly destrest with the present Circumstances of their Commerce, have transmitted to the Merchants and Manufacturers of Great Brittain, a Memorial Pointing out their Difficulties and hinting at the Remedies &c. which they Conceive will afford them the Desired Relief. They have been induced to take this Step from an Expectation,...
2Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence: To Richard Jackson and Benjamin Franklin, 16 October 1765 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives , 1765–1766 (Philadelphia, 1766), p. 6. By Order of the House of Representatives, we inform you, that you are appointed joint Agents of this Province for the ensuing Year, to transact and solicit the Affairs thereof in Great-Britain. That they perceive, by a Letter from Richard Jackson, Esq; dated the Ninth of August last, “that...
3Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin and Richard Jackson, 15 October 1768 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania, Met at Philadelphia, on the Fourteenth of October, A.D. 1768, and Continued by Adjournments (Philadelphia, 1769), p. 6. By Order of Assembly we inclose you the Resolves, by which you are appointed joint Agents to solicit and transact the Affairs of this Province in Great-Britain during the...
4Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence to Richard Jackson and Benjamin Franklin, 20 February 1768 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1767–1768 (Philadelphia, 1768), pp. 8–9. We are particularly enjoined by the House of Assembly, now sitting, to request that you would co-operate with the Agents of the other colonies in any decent and respectful Application to Parliament, in case such Application is made by them for a Repeal of...
5Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin and Richard Jackson, 18 April 1769 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Library of Congress Being desirous of preventing any ill Effects which may ensue from a Misrepresentation of the Conduct of the Inhabitants of the Province at this Critical Juncture, We think it necessary to give you a brief account of a Riot lately committed in this City, by a few of the lower kind of the People, That, if any mention should be made of it, on your side of the Water, to...
6Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin and Richard Jackson, 17 October 1769 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania , 1769–1770 (Philadelphia, 1770), p. 116. By Order of Assembly we inclose you the Resolves appointing you Agents for this Province, to transact the Affairs thereof in Great-Britain, as well as that by which we are nominated a Committee of Correspondence, to whom you will communicate from Time to...
7Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence to Richard Jackson and Benjamin Franklin, 17 October 1767 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania , 1767–1768 (Philadelphia, 1768), pp. 8–9; also copy: Library of Congress. We inclose the Resolves of the Assembly, by which you are appointed Joint-Agents of this Province, for the ensuing Year, to transact the Affairs thereof in Great-Britain, with another, by which you will perceive that the...
8Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin and Richard Jackson, 22 September 1768 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives … 1767–1768 (Philadelphia, 1768), pp. 132–4. In our Letter of the twentieth of February last, we communicated the Directions of the House, that you would unite with the Agents of the other Colonies in such Measures as might be pursued with respect to the obtaining a Repeal of the Act of Parliament imposing Duties on Glass,...
9Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence to Richard Jackson and Benjamin Franklin, 19 January 1768 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania, Met at Philadelphia, on the 14th of October, A.D. 1767, and Continued by Adjournments (Philadelphia, 1768), pp. 31–2. By Order of the House we inclose you Copies of a Letter from his Excellency General Gage, a Message from the Governor to the Assembly, and their Answer, and the Examination of...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, 1 June 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society My last to you was of the 1st. of May, since which I am favour’d with yours of the 13th. of February and 10th. March. We are oblig’d to you for deferring the propos’d Stamp Act. I hope, for Reasons heretofore mention’d, it will never take Place. We see in the Papers that an Act is pass’d for granting certain Duties on Goods in the British Colonies, &c. but...