1Journal of a Voyage, 1726 (Franklin Papers)
...strike. But the well that supplies the inhabitants at present with water is in the lower castle, and is thirty fathoms deep. They draw their water with a great wheel, and with a bucket that holds near a barrel. It makes a great sound if you speak in it, and echoed the
2From Benjamin Franklin to Sarah Davenport, [June 1730?] (Franklin Papers)
this Money, and I now send him 3 Barrels of Flower (tho’ it be long first) which come to about the Money. I reckon my self very much oblig’d to him for not being more urgent with me. The Flower Brother John
3Extracts from the Gazette, 1731 (Franklin Papers)
Thursday last, a certain P——r [’tis not customary to give Names at length on these Occasions] walking carefully in clean Cloaths over some Barrels of Tar on Carpenter’s Wharff, the head of one of them unluckily gave way, and let a Leg of him in above his Knee. Whether he was upon the Catch at that time, we cannot say,...
4Extracts from the Gazette, 1739 (Franklin Papers)
Brass Candlesticks, Snuffers and snuff-Dishes, four, six, eight, ten and twenty-penny Nails, Pidgeon, Duck and Goose Shot, bar Lead, Pistol Powder in quarter and half Barrels, English Duck
5An Account of the Export of Provisions from Philadelphia, [16 February 1741] (Franklin Papers)
Bread, 49 and half, Tons; 7,980 Tierces, 9,573 Barrels, 885 half Barrels, 881 quarter Barrels, and 9 Cags.Flour, 100 Tierces, 53,970 Barrels, 147 half Barrels.
6An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Places, [15 November 1744] (Franklin Papers)
The Air that enters the Room thro’ the Air-box is fresh, tho’ warm; and computing the Swiftness of its Motion with the Areas of the Holes, ’tis found that near 10 Barrels of fresh Air are hourly introduc’d by the Air-Box; and by this Means the Air in the Room is continually changed, and kept at the same Time sweet and warm.
7Extracts from the Gazette, 1745 (Franklin Papers)
] Lost on Friday, the 21st of December, 1744, betwixt Frankfort and Philadelphia, a Fowling-Piece, mounted with Brass, Dutch Make, a black Barrel, with a pretty wide Bore. Whoever has found it, and will return it to the Printer hereof, shall be sufficiently rewarded.
8Extracts from the Gazette, 1747 (Franklin Papers)
consisting of cloth, paint, tools, trinkets, four barrels of gunpowder, 500 lb. of bar lead, 8 guns, and 18 tomahawks for cracking French skulls. A smaller present of guns, powder, lead, flints, and knives went to the neighboring Canayiahaga; and a personal gift...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 25 May 1747 (Franklin Papers)
a Needle to the End of a suspended Gun Barrel, so as to point beyond it like a little Bayonet, and while it remains there, the Gun Barrel can not be electrised (by the Tube applied to the other End) so as to give a Spark; that the Electrical Fire came down the Wire from the Cieling to the Gun Barrel, thence to the Sphere and so electrised the Machine,
10From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 16 July 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...“Act for laying a Duty on the Exportation of Lumber to the neighbouring Governments,” May 1747, was supposed to conserve the colony’s timber resources and promote shipbuilding and trade with the West Indies. It applied to all barrel staves and headings, ships timbers, planks, boards, and bark shipped to the neighboring coastal colonies of New England and New York.