1From Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, 25 November 1780 (Franklin Papers)
...officer in the Service may think fit to saddle me with. This Affair however is now done...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 22 December 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...silver leaf, horse combs, sheep shears, saddle furniture and spurs, padlocks, spoons and...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 3 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Saddles, Carbines, Boots, spurs, &ca. for 100 Light...
4From Benjamin Franklin to Margaret Stevenson, 25 January 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...the white Cloth Suit, the Sword, & the Saddle for Temple, all in good Order. I mention...
5The American Commissioners to Ferdinand Grand, [26 August 1777] (Franklin Papers)
...studies, and Mr. Lee absent,” and was now saddled with the blame. On the 26th,
6The American Commissioners to the Committee for Foreign Affairs, 25 May 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...Accoutrements which have been found best; the Saddle is of a singular Contrivance, very...Saddles
7The American Commissioners to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 12 March[–9 April 1777] (Franklin Papers)
...have the Arms and Accoutrements for the Horse except Saddles, if not intercepted by the Enemy...
8[The American Commissioners]: Memorandum [for Vergennes], 28 March 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...and Swords, with Belts, and every thing but Saddles can be borrowed from the King’s Magazines...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Philip Schuyler, 11 March 1776 (Franklin Papers)
bought a new saddle and left Philadelphia: entries of that date in his...
10Toleration in Old and New England, 3 June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
...design, which they think must sooner or later saddle them with great expences to support it....
11Marginalia in Good Humour, an Anonymous Pamphlet, [1769?] (Franklin Papers)
...’ real fear seems to be that they will be saddled with a part of the British national debt....
12From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 13 June 1767 (Franklin Papers)
put what Saddle he thought fit: The other Merchants seem’d rather...
13From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, 1 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
and saddle us
14Cool Thoughts on the Present Situation of Our Public Affairs, 12 April 1764 (Franklin Papers)
...; for he has no Quakers in his Assembly to saddle with the Blame of those Contentions, nor can...
15From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 26 February 1763 (Franklin Papers)
...woollen Cloth, and hung to the Pomells of their Saddles, so as that the Wind might act upon...
16Advertisement for Wagons, 26 April 1755 (Franklin Papers)
..., with 4 Horses to each Waggon, and 1500 Saddle or Pack-Horses are wanted for the Service of...
17Memorandum of Wagon Accounts, 23 April 1755 (Franklin Papers)
to Do. for 2 Horses with Saddles and 7 Days payAdvanc’d Jacob Downer a Horse and Saddle
18Poor Richard Improved, 1754 (Franklin Papers)
The Horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another....came tumbling out of the Saddle...
19Extracts from the Gazette, 1745 (Franklin Papers)
...the near Shoulder with a Heart; and a Virginia-made Saddle, with a Cut on the Seat, sew’d up...