1Journal of a Voyage, 1726 (Franklin Papers)
...wheel, and with a bucket that holds near a barrel. It makes a great sound if you speak...
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...
3Extracts from the Gazette, 1731 (Franklin Papers)
...] walking carefully in clean Cloaths over some Barrels of Tar on Carpenter’s Wharff,...
4Extracts from the Gazette, 1739 (Franklin Papers)
...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)
...49 and half, Tons; 7,980 Tierces, 9,573 Barrels, 885 half Barrels, 881 quarter Barrels, and 9...
6An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Places, [15 November 1744] (Franklin Papers)
...of the Holes, ’tis found that near 10 Barrels of fresh Air are hourly introduc’d by the...
7Extracts from the Gazette, 1745 (Franklin Papers)
...Piece, mounted with Brass, Dutch Make, a black Barrel, with a pretty wide Bore. Whoever has...
8Extracts from the Gazette, 1747 (Franklin Papers)
consisting of cloth, paint, tools, trinkets, four barrels of gunpowder, 500 lb. of bar lead, 8...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 25 May 1747 (Franklin Papers)
a Needle to the End of a suspended Gun Barrel, ...there, the Gun Barrel can not be......Barrel...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 16 July 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...the West Indies. It applied to all barrel staves and headings, ships timbers, planks,...
11From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 28 July 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...on the Touch of the Wire (or of the Gun Barrel, which is the same Thing) the Fire does not...
12From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 19 October 1748 (Franklin Papers)
...) for skins, ink, paper, binding parchment, a barrel of limes, and a “Pot Sweetmeats.” He...
13From Benjamin Franklin to John Mitchell, 29 April 1749 (Franklin Papers)
37. When the Gun Barrel, in Electrical Experiments, has but little Electrical Fire in...
14From Benjamin Franklin to Abiah Franklin, 7 September 1749 (Franklin Papers)
.... Their presents included 10 half barrels of gunpowder, 10 hundredweight of bar lead, 3...
15Commission from Robert Dinwiddie, 30 October 1753 (Washington Papers)
...for the use of Virginia and that 80 barrels of gunpowder would be shipped from the royal...
16David Colden: Remarks on Nollet’s Letters, [4?] December 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...for the Lyden experiment is hung to the Gun barrel or prime Conductor, and you turn the Globe...
17To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, January 1754 (Washington Papers)
...the colony and included 30 cannon and 80 barrels of powder, as well as other stores....
18Account of the Death of Georg Richmann, 5 March 1754 (Franklin Papers)
..., two Feet long, and about the Thickness of the Barrel of a Pen, had been thrown on the stairs...
19To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 2 June 1754 (Washington Papers)
The Goods You desire for the Inds. & three barrels of rum will be sent off Tomorrow
20To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Timothy, 14 June 1754 (Franklin Papers)
...of me, for which he was to send me two Barrels of Beer: As he did not send the Beer,...
21II., 3 July 1754 (Washington Papers)
...Fort having broke the Heads of the Powder Barrels and strown it about that it might be...
22From Benjamin Franklin to William Shirley, 22 May 1755 (Franklin Papers)
They have purchased but 500 Barrels of Pork. It is all of the best Burlington... ...Barrel...
23From George Washington to Mary Ball Washington, 7 June 1755 (Washington Papers)
Ten tons of butter and 1,000 barrels of beef were sent from Ireland with Braddock’s two...
24From George Washington to James Innes, 17 July 1755 (Washington Papers)
...2 kegs of spirit, a cask of vinegar, a barrel of potatoes, and 3 tubs of butter (Morris to...
25From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 25 August 1755 (Franklin Papers)
...the ground, appeared not bigger than a common barrel, but widening upwards, it seemed, at...
26From George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, 11 September 1755 (Washington Papers)
...of the Kings’s Stores,” listed at Alexandria 70 barrels of beef, 100 of pork, and 96 of flour...
27To George Washington from John Defever, 18 September 1755 (Washington Papers)
...powder from losing force by escaping between the gun’s barrel and the projectile.
28To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 18 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
...Small Arms fit for use in the Magazine—ten barrels of Powder & some Lead. I expect by Xmas...
29From George Washington to Allan McLean, 26 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
...engage all the Coopers you can to make and repair Barrels for the Beef, &c. You are to apply...
30From George Washington to Adam Stephen, 29 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
...must engage all the Coopers you can to make Barrels for packing the Beef; and if any of...