31To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Peters, 8 January 1803 (Hamilton Papers)
...none better than your own. Sowing it thick or thin makes it fine or coarse. I generally sow 8 Pounds or Pints to the Acre & I find it fine enough. I have tried Luzerne, Onobrychis or Sainfoin, Burnet &c &c, but I stick to the red clover because it sticks to me. The others cost more than they come to.
32Governor Burnet and the Massachusetts Assembly, 9 October 1729 (Franklin Papers)
His Excellency Governor Burnet died unexpectedly about two Days after the Date of this Reply to his last Message: And it was thought the Dispute would have ended with him, or at least have lain dormant till the Arrival of a new Governor......; and few or none of their Governors have hitherto complain’d, or had Reason to complain, of a too scanty Allowance. But the late Gov. Burnet brought with...
33On Governor Belcher’s Speech, 24 September 1730 (Franklin Papers)
...at large to the Assembly of the Massachusetts, which we have by this Post. It may suffice at present to observe from it, that he has brought with him those very Instructions that occasion’d the Difference between Governor Burnet and that People,...wealthy merchant, member of the Massachusetts Council, represented the Assembly in England in its salary controversy with Governor Burnet in 1728...
34Extracts from the Gazette, 1734 (Franklin Papers)
, the following Books. Westindia Coasting Pilot. Newhouse’s Navigation. Pattoun’s Navigation. Key of Commerce. Lex Mercatoria. Euclid’s Elements by William Whiston. Burnet’s Theory of the Earth, 2 Vols. Lock on Human Understanding, 2 Vols. Blackmore’s Prince Arthur. London Dispensatory. Blancard’s Physical Dictionary. Geo. Fox’s Journal. Basnages History of the Jews. Van Helmont’s...
35From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 25 May 1747 (Franklin Papers)
Thomas Burnet,
36To Benjamin Franklin from William Strahan, 26 August 1752 (Franklin Papers)
Keil’s Examination of Burnet’s Theory
37Board of Trade to the Privy Council Committee, 1 June 1759 (Franklin Papers)
Mr. Burnet,William Burnet; see above,
38To Benjamin Franklin from [Alexander Small], 5 July 1763 (Franklin Papers)
I do not know whether any of our Burnet Seed, ...keeps the ground warm, when a good Cover is left. If sown in August it will bear but little cutting that Season. The Weeds must be kept carefully under next Spring, the Burnet thinned where too thick, or transplanted where too thin, so that the Plants may stand in rich ground at the distance of nine Inches from one another, and of Six in poor...
39To Benjamin Franklin from John Mills, 12 July 1764 (Franklin Papers)
and I likewise send to the same Society (at their desire) an hundred weight of Mr. Roque’s Burnet seed.For Small’s laudatory description of burnet, see above,
40To Benjamin Franklin from Deborah Franklin, 3 November 1765 (Franklin Papers)
, 426. Henry Burnet, a former apprentice of Reily’s, advertised in , Nov. 21, 1765, and some later issues, that during the illness of “ that eminent Conveyencer,” who was”lately deceased,” Burnet had transacted all of Reily’s business.