1The American Commissioners to the Committee for Foreign Affairs, 25 May 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...; the whole Number will be forwarded as fast as they can be got ready. Col. Forrester, an experienced Officer of Horse, has given us a Specimen of compleat Accoutrements which have been found best; the Saddle is of a singular Contrivance, very cheap and easily made or repair’d; and the Buff Belts so broad, as that crossing on the Breast, they are good Armour against the Point of a Sword or...
2[The American Commissioners]: Memorandum [for Vergennes], 28 March 1777 (Franklin Papers)
We have provided the Pistols. We request to know whether the other Arms, viz. Carbines, and Swords, with Belts, and every thing but Saddles can be borrowed from the King’s Magazines, on the same Condition as above-mentioned for the Cannon?
3The American Commissioners to Ferdinand Grand, [26 August 1777] (Franklin Papers)
...of Conyngham, which had been entirely Deane’s doing. Deane in turn complained that he had been left to act alone, “Dr. Franklin being generally occupied in philosophical studies, and Mr. Lee absent,” and was now saddled with the blame. On the 26th,
4The American Commissioners to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 12 March[–9 April 1777] (Franklin Papers)
You will soon have the Arms and Accoutrements for the Horse except Saddles, if not intercepted by the Enemy.
5Advertisement for Wagons, 26 April 1755 (Franklin Papers)
150 Waggons, with 4 Horses to each Waggon, and 1500 Saddle or Pack-Horses are wanted for the Service of his Majesty’s Forces now about to rendezvous at Wills’s Creek; and his Excellency General Braddock hath been pleased to impower me to contract for the Hire of the...: And for each able Horse with a Pack-Saddle or other Saddle and Furniture, Two Shillings per ...able Horse without a Saddle...
6Memorandum 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
7Poor Richard Improved, 1754 (Franklin Papers)
The Horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another. was well mounted, she let go the Bridle, and soon came tumbling out of the Saddle.
8Extracts from the Gazette, 1745 (Franklin Papers)
...Hour Hand, Silver Shoe and Knee Buckles, and other Things of Value: He stole when he went off, a middle-siz’d dark bay Horse, branded on the near Shoulder with a Heart; and a Virginia-made Saddle, with a Cut on the Seat, sew’d up with Silk: The Horse belongs to Abraham Bedel, living near the Place where the Upper Southanna Bridge stood, in Hanover County. It is thought he has a forg...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Philip Schuyler, 11 March 1776 (Franklin Papers)
bought a new saddle and left Philadelphia: entries of that date in his Memorandum Book described above,
10From Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, 25 November 1780 (Franklin Papers)
...sensible on Reflection that with regard to me it was wrong, and that it ought not be expected of me to be always ready & able to pay the Demands that every officer in the Service may think fit to saddle me with. This Affair however is now done with, & I shall say and think no more about it.—
11From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 26 February 1763 (Franklin Papers)
mentions the Custom of Travellers carrying their Water in Flasks covered with wet woollen Cloth, and hung to the Pomells of their Saddles, so as that the Wind might act upon them in order to. cool the Water. I have also seen a kind of Jar for cooling Water, made of Potter’s Earth, but unglaz’d, and so porous...
12From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 22 December 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...poor quality), fourteen colors of paint (ranging from 4,000 lbs. of white and Spanish brown to 8 oz. of carmine), paint brushes, gold and silver leaf, horse combs, sheep shears, saddle furniture and spurs, padlocks, spoons and cups, tent linen, thread, needles and thimbles, assorted writing supplies, maps of North America, “100 Setts of Mullers Military Works in English except his ‘Treatise...
13From Benjamin Franklin to Margaret Stevenson, 25 January 1779 (Franklin Papers)
I thought I had mention’d to you before; (and I believe I did, tho’ my Letter may have miscarried) that I had received the white Cloth Suit, the Sword, & the Saddle for Temple, all in good Order. I mention them now again because Polly tells me you had not heard of their Arrival.
14From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 3 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Saddles, Carbines, Boots, spurs, &ca. for 100 Light Horse.
15From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, 1 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
and saddle us
16From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 13 June 1767 (Franklin Papers)
put what Saddle he thought fit: The other Merchants seem’d rather averse to the Pensilvania Merchants proceeding alone, but said they were certainly at Liberty to do as they thought proper. The Conclusion of the Pensilvania Merchants was, to wait...
17Marginalia in Good Humour, an Anonymous Pamphlet, [1769?] (Franklin Papers)
The colonists’ real fear seems to be that they will be saddled with a part of the British national debt. Why not absolve them from this threat in return for an annual contribution of raw materials or manufactures, or a grant of money to maintain troops for colonial defense?
18Toleration in Old and New England, 3 June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
...very great importance, since few seek it in England where Bishops are in plenty. These sentiments prevail with many churchmen there, not to promote a design, which they think must sooner or later saddle them with great expences to support it. As to the Dissenters, their minds might probably be more conciliated to the measure, if the Bishops here should, in their wisdom and goodness, think...
19Cool Thoughts on the Present Situation of Our Public Affairs, 12 April 1764 (Franklin Papers)
Thro’ these Contentions the good People of that Province are rendered equally unhappy with our selves, and their Proprietary, perhaps, more so than our’s; for he has no Quakers in his Assembly to saddle with the Blame of those Contentions, nor can he justify himself with the Pretence, that turning to the Church has made his People his Enemies.