1Miscellaneous Business Memoranda, 1731 (Franklin Papers)
...dependents were cloth of various kinds (linen, calico, chintz, cambric, taffeta);...
2Extracts from the Gazette, 1731 (Franklin Papers)
...there, for encouraging the Manufacture of Linen: The Mayor and Common Council of... ...Linen,...
3Extracts from the Gazette, 1733 (Franklin Papers)
...very well, cook Victuals, sew, spin on the Linen Wheel, milk Cows, and do all Sorts of...
4Articles of the Union Fire Company, 31 January 1743 (Franklin Papers)
...each member from two leather buckets and four linen bags for salvage to six buckets, four bags...
5Extracts from the Gazette, 1744 (Franklin Papers)
, For the Washing of fine Linen, Muslins, Laces, Silks, Chinces, Calicoes, and for...
6To Benjamin Franklin from George Scholtze, 5 May 1746 (Franklin Papers)
Strong, coarse linen cloth.
7From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 25 May 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...of a small Piece of burnt Cork, with Legs of Linen Thread, and a Grain or two of Lead stuck...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 28 July 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...[(a)] sticking in the Table, let a small Linen Thread [(b)] hang down within half an Inch...
9Deborah Franklin to Margaret Strahan, 24 December 1751 (Franklin Papers)
David Barclay (1682–1769), London linen draper and merchant, son of the Quaker Apologist and...
10Pennsylvania Assembly Committee: Report on the State of the Currency, 19 August 1752 (Franklin Papers)
of Linen, &c. from Scotland and Ireland) appears more particularly...
11To Benjamin Franklin from James Bowdoin, 12 November 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...moved a Sparkling Light appear’d: I took a Linen Cloth and strain’d some of the Water thro...
12From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 6 December 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...woolen Garments keep the Body warmer than Linen ones equally thick. Woolen keeping the Natural...
13John Canton: Electrical Experiments, 6 December 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...the bigness of a small pea, be suspended by linen threads of eight or nine inches in length,...
14To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Collinson, 7 March 1754 (Franklin Papers)
...Shewing, from Experience, A sure Method to establish the Linen-Manufacture...for a linen...
15From George Washington to Thomas Cresap, 18 April 1754 (Washington Papers)
Osnaburg is a coarse linen originally made in Osnabrück in northern Germany.
16Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, [28 May 1754] (Franklin Papers)
...in nursing others, washing and ironing the Linen, washing and cleaning the Rooms, and...
17Invoice, 23 October 1754 (Washington Papers)
This was probably an Irish linen with a smooth, shiny surface....of cotton and linen, usually...
18From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 14 May 1755 (Washington Papers)
...shoes with long gaiters made of brown cloth or linen. GW may have gotten new boots a few...
19Orders, 15 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
...their Officers are to apply for Orders for Linen for that purpose, and see it immediately made...
20From George Washington to John Hall and John King, 16 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
...and wait there for Orders. You are to provide Linen at Mr Dicks for Haversacks for the men,...
21Orders, 16 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
...to apply to Mr John Dow, Merchant, for Linen, for which they are to give their Receipts....
22Address, 8 January 1756 (Washington Papers)
...gold and scarlet sword knots, and Irish linens, “Blands Military Discipline.” The merchant...
23To George Washington from Peter Hog, 26 June 1756 (Washington Papers)
Rollers were white linen stocks worn by British soldiers.
24From Benjamin Franklin to John Lining, 14 April 1757 (Franklin Papers)
...Wool, and its Preference on that Account to Linen; Wool not being so good a Conductor. And...
25Invoice from Richard Washington, 20 August 1757 (Washington Papers)
Huckaback is a loosely woven, soft cotton or linen towelling.
26From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 22 November 1757 (Franklin Papers)
..., muff, and tippet, and a box of fashionable linen for her dress; in the box is a...
27From Benjamin Franklin to John Lining, 17 June 1758 (Franklin Papers)
...on than a shirt, and a pair of long linen drawers, the windows all open, and a brisk...
28From Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, 2 December 1758 (Franklin Papers)
...of meat, fowls, &c. wrapt well in wet linen cloths, three or four fold, I am confident that...
29Certificate of Nomination to the Royal Society, 17 May 1759 (Franklin Papers)
London. Linen-draper; electrician.
30From George Washington to James Gildart, 20 September 1759 (Washington Papers)
...of osnaburg, 400 ells of brown rolls (coarse linen), 12 dozen broad hoes, 12 dozen narrow hoes...