1From Benjamin Franklin to Sarah Davenport, [June 1730?] (Franklin Papers)
John Franklin (C. 8; 1690–1756), a soap-boiler like his father, subsequently postmaster of Boston.
2Extracts from the Gazette, 1733 (Franklin Papers)
CROWN SOAP...the Washer, through the ill Qualities of the Soap they use, than the Wearing. It is...
3Shop Book, 1735–39 (Franklin Papers)
...and charged a cake of the family’s famous crown soap.
4To Benjamin Franklin from Josiah Franklin, 26 May 1739 (Franklin Papers)
...his nephew Peter Mecom proposed to stamp them on crown soap,
5Extracts from the Gazette, 1744 (Franklin Papers)
Fine Crown Soap...Washer through the ill Qualities of the Soap they use, than the Wearing. It...Soap
6From Benjamin Franklin to Josiah and Abiah Franklin, 6 September 1744 (Franklin Papers)
has for its principal Ingredient, Soap, which Boerhave
7An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Places, [15 November 1744] (Franklin Papers)
...scour them perfectly; as will also a little strong Soft-Soap and Water...., or Soap and...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Darling, 10 February 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...the Ashes of which will make no Glass, nor even Soap.
9From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 3 May 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...in Air? I have made many when a Boy with Soap Suds and a Tobacco Pipe; but they all descended...
10David Colden: Remarks on Nollet’s Letters, [4?] December 1753 (Franklin Papers)
Ex. II—I made a strong lather of soap in a peuter baison which was set on wax and...