1Examination before the Committee of the Whole of the House of Commons, 13 February 1766 (Franklin Papers)
[113] Q. How many ships are there laden annually in North-America with flax-seed for Ireland?...cannot speak to the number of ships, but I know that in 1752, 10,000 hogsheads of flax-seed, each containing 7 bushels, were exported from Philadelphia to Ireland. I suppose the quantity is greatly increased since that time; and it is understood that the exportation from New York is equal to that...
2Cash Accounts, January 1767 (Washington Papers)
To Ditto from Mr Gibson for 23 Bushls of Flax Seed @4/
3April [1767] (Washington Papers)
Sowed more flax seed behind the quarter.
4[Diary entry: 29 April 1767] (Washington Papers)
Sowed more flax seed behind the quarter.
5Observations [April 1768] (Washington Papers)
Also sewed Flax Seed at Muddy hole.
6[Diary entry: 12 April 1768] (Washington Papers)
Also sewed Flax Seed at Muddy hole.
7Memorandum Books, 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
Wrote to Tom Stewart of Augusta for 10. bushels of flax-seed & 10. do. of hemp seed.
8An Open Letter to Lord Buckinghamshire, [4 March 1774] (Franklin Papers)
...sent to this Kingdom for the purpose of paying Debts. The Exceptions are very inconsiderable. Now let us take a single Ship sailing from one of their Ports loaded with Oil, Salt Fish, Flax Seed, Flour, Corn, Tobacco, or Rice, the Consequence must be, that some Merchant on this Side of the Water sustains the Loss; for the Goods are generally the Property of British Merchants before...
9Writ of Review—Stewart et al. v. King: Cumberland Superior Court, Falmouth, June 1774 (Adams Papers)
...value of eighty five pounds and his shed adjoining the same barn of the value of fifteen pounds one load of English hay being in said barn of the value of fifty shillings two bushells of his Flax seed of the value of twelve shillings his hay Cart of the value of twenty four shillings twelve rods of his barnyard fence there of the value of four pounds, and took and carried away two sleds...
10From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 30 June 1774 (Franklin Papers)
I should be sorry if Ireland is included in your agreement, because that country is much our friend, and the want of flax-seed may distress them exceedingly, but your merchants can best judge. It can only be meant against England, to ensure a change of measures, and not to hurt Ireland, with whom we have no quarrel....dependence on colonial flax seed see “The Question Discussed” below, Nov....