11“A Traveller”: News-Writers’ Nonsense, 20 May 1765 (Franklin Papers)
...“Lakes.” The report of a whale fishery in the Great Lakes (cited by Crane as from the
12Gottfried Achenwall: Some Observations on North America from Information of Dr. Franklin, [July 1766] (Franklin Papers)
...are held. Lake Ontario is connected by water through the greater lakes lying inland with the
13To Benjamin Franklin from [Samuel Wharton], 2 December 1768 (Franklin Papers)
...compelled to seek a Retreat, To the Westward of the great Lakes.
14From John Adams to George Washington, 6 January 1776 (Adams Papers)
..., as it is a Passage to Canada to the Great Lakes and to all the Indians Nations. No Effort...
15To George Washington from John Adams, 6 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
..., as it is a Passage to Canada to the Great Lakes and to all the Indians Nations. No Effort...
16From John Adams to James Warren, 16 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
..., they will have the Navigation of the five great Lakes quite as far as the Mississipi River,...
17To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 3 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
...be the Case, or that they would remove over the Great Lakes.
18To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 27 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
...as well as the Western Tribes over the great Lakes, or bring them to Terms, as they...
19From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
...After the war, La Mothe remained in the Great Lakes region and served as an Indian interpreter...
20Motion Regarding the Western Lands, [6 September] 1780 (Madison Papers)
..., but between that stream and the Great Lakes and from the poorly defined western...