51Certificate of Nomination to the Royal Society, 17 May 1759 (Franklin Papers)
The first recommendation Franklin signed was for Edward Hussey Delaval of Cambridge University, who was proposed on May 17, 1759, and elected the following December 6. The text of his certificate is printed in full below. Other certificates that Franklin signed nearly always followed the same general form, although they...
52Power of Attorney to Deborah Franklin, 4 April 1757 (Franklin Papers)
..., 1756, vestryman of Christ Church. His son Jacob Duché, Jr. (1738–1798), graduated in the first class of the College of Philadelphia, 1757, where he taught oratory after further study at Cambridge University and ordination as a deacon. The son entered the priesthood in 1762 and succeeded Richard Peters in 1775 as rector of the united parishes of Christ Church and St. Peter’s. He was made...
53John Jay’s Conference with Floridablanca Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
, trans. Anthony Tillet and Lorena Murillo, Cambridge Latin American Studies, vol. 91 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). On the war’s impact on Spain’s trade with its American colonies, see John Fisher, “Imperial ‘Free Trade’ and the Hispanic Economy, 1778–1796,”