1The Busy-Body, No. 8, 27 March 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Money; and if the Sands of Schuylkil were so much mixed with small Grains of...
2The Palatines’ Appeal, 15 February 1732 (Franklin Papers)
...let them swim, and one could not have a little Sand to sink the Body to the Ground; one dare...
3Afterword to Every Man His Own Doctor, 1736 (Franklin Papers)
, and digest in a proper Vessel in a Sand-Heat for Six Hours, afterwards decant for Use.
4Extracts from the Gazette, 1742 (Franklin Papers)
...-bottles neatly set in Brass, Ink and sand Glasses with Brass Heads, Pounce and Pounce...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Darling, [February 1747?] (Franklin Papers)
23. What part of Sand and ashes is Converted into Glass?
6From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Darling, 10 February 1747 (Franklin Papers)
The Ingredients of Common Window and Bottle Glass are only Sand and Ashes.
7From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 25 May 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...Shot is likewise destroy’d; 1. By sifting fine Sand on it; this does it gradually: 2. By...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 16 July 1747 (Franklin Papers)
..., if not the best Iron” from black sea sand, 1762, he received a gold medal from the...
9Poor Richard Improved, 1748 (Franklin Papers)
Sell-cheap kept Shop on Goodwin Sands, and yet had Store of Custom.
10Poor Richard Improved, 1749 (Franklin Papers)
...sandy beaches, which are nothing but beds of sand, they grow as thick as possible; from...
11Peter Kalm: Conversations with Franklin, 1750 (Franklin Papers)
...of the waves. After having dug through the sand and reached a depth of eighteen feet or...
12Poor Richard Improved, 1751 (Franklin Papers)
...of one Vessel into another, somewhat like our Sand-Glasses. Clocks and Watches, to shew the...
13Poor Richard Improved, 1752 (Franklin Papers)
Where Sands or stony Wilds once starv’d the Year,O’er seas, o’er Lybia’s sands, and Zembla’s snows.”
14To Benjamin Franklin from Cadwallader Colden, 16 March 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...and Ammoniac, of Earths as Bole, Chalk, Clay, Sand, Lime, &c. I am strongly inclined to think...
15From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 12 April 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...the same, notwithstanding the greatest Pressure, and would admit Sand, &c. as Water admits Salt.
16To Benjamin Franklin from Charles Woodmason: Poetical Epistle, 20 September 1753 (Franklin Papers)
And stones and sand are widely scatter’d round;
17Journey to the French Commandant: Narrative (Washington Papers)
...their Alliances; for my Force is as the Sand upon the Sea Shoar: therefore here is your...
18From Benjamin Franklin to William Shirley, 22 December 1754 (Franklin Papers)
...their wealth and persons at its command? Could the Goodwin Sands
19From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 1 September 1755 (Franklin Papers)
...method, published 1762, of making iron from black sea sand.
20To George Washington from John Defever, 18 September 1755 (Washington Papers)
sand Bags
21Memorandum, 10 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
They were probably James Sands and Power Hazel. See ...having paid “Heasel and Sands” £4 6s. 5d...
22Press Warrant, 10 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
A Copy of this was given James Sands, for going to the Fort, wherein Hill and Vanmerten...
23From George Washington to Thomas Bryan Martin, 10 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
GW is referring to Power Hazel and James Sands. See
24From George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, 11–14 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
Power Hazel and James Sands were the men hired. Ashby’s letter has not...
25Poor Richard Improved, 1756 (Franklin Papers)
which separates the parched Grain from the Ashes. Sand heated in a Pot over a Fire will do as...
26To Benjamin Franklin from Elizabeth Hubbart, 16 February 1756 (Franklin Papers)
I send you two Specimans of the Sand thrown up by the late Earthquake, if you have......sand...
27Specifications for a Dwelling House, [1757–1775] (Franklin Papers)
The Ground is dry, being Loom, Sand and Gravel. We dig about 30 feet before we......Sand...
28From Benjamin Franklin to John Pringle, 6 January 1758 (Franklin Papers)
...of clay, gravel, marble, coals, lime-stone, sand, minerals, &c. continued to lie level,...
29To George Washington from John St. Clair, 13 June 1758 (Washington Papers)
...and 12 Spades or Shovels. The half of the Sand Bags at Winchester to be sent to Connogochieg,...
30To George Washington from John St. Clair, 9 August 1758 (Washington Papers)
...the Baggs be insufficient I have sent 700 Bushel Sand bags which are not to be used but in...
31[April 1760] (Washington Papers)
...the said Field which Marle seemd a little Inclinable to Sand....Earth and 1 of Riverside Sand...
32[Diary entry: 14 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
...the said Field which Marle seemd a little Inclinable to Sand....Earth and 1 of Riverside Sand...
33[September 1760] (Adams Papers)
...in Danger, from storms, from Rocks and sands, and they are in Danger from Pyrates and...
34Septr. 24th. 1760. (Adams Papers)
...in Danger, from storms, from Rocks and sands, and they are in Danger from Pyrates and...
35To Benjamin Franklin from Isaac Norris, 26 September 1760 (Franklin Papers)
We are at present among Rocks and Sands in a Stormy Season and it depends on you to...
36From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Potts, 23 April 1761 (Franklin Papers)
...was for 50 Miles chiefly a heavy loose Sand, very fatiguing to the Horses: That being...
37To Benjamin Franklin from [Alexander Small], 5 July 1763 (Franklin Papers)
...a gold medal for his production of iron from sea sand. He
38[July 1763] (Adams Papers)
...into or sage Conjectures about the Number of sands in the Moon or of Particles in the...
...into or sage Conjectures about the Number of sands in the Moon or of Particles in the...
40To Benjamin Franklin from William Strahan, 18 August 1763 (Franklin Papers)
..., Sense, nor Activity, and are a Rope of Sand. Of Course the essential Interests of the Nation...
4115 Octobr. 1763 (Washington Papers)
...bushes, the soil being much intermixed with Sand but afterwards it grew blacker and richer...
42From Benjamin Franklin to John Canton, 14 March 1764 (Franklin Papers)
...of Air, thro’ which Medium they might pass as Sand can thro’ Water; and that such fix’d Medium...
43From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 24 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
...medal for his method of extracting iron from black sea sand (above,
44Samuel Rhoads, Junior: Account Book, 13 November 1764 (Franklin Papers)
for [?] Load Sand. Receiv’d of Saml Rhoads five Pounds
45Poor Richard Improved, 1765 (Franklin Papers)
...than Blood-warm, and sent over pack’d in Sand. They are to be planted in square Holes,...
46To Benjamin Franklin from John Hope, 15 March 1765 (Franklin Papers)
...to perish shou’d certainly be packed up in Sand or dry earth and sent off as soon as...
47From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 6 November 1765 (Washington Papers)
...write for; and that is Wheat Riddles—rather Sand Sieves—I shoud be obligd to you therefore...
48From Benjamin Franklin to the Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence, 10 June 1766 (Franklin Papers)
...on such moveable Materials; ’tis like writing on the Sands in a windy Day.
49Gottfried Achenwall: Some Observations on North America from Information of Dr. Franklin, [July 1766] (Franklin Papers)
...is sandy, many little islands along the coast are sand banks, thrown up gradually by the sea...
50From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 22 August 1766 (Washington Papers)
...been attended to for there I expressly desired Sand Sieves for the purpose of Sifting out the...