1Plain Truth, 17 November 1747 (Franklin Papers)
Plain Truth: or, Serious Considerations On the Present State of the City of Philadelphia, and...
2Petition for the Pennsylvania Hospital, 23 January 1751 (Franklin Papers)
...one of the best-known episodes in Franklin’s public career, for he related the history of it...On
3Record of Service in the Assembly, 1751–64 (Franklin Papers)
Put on a Committee to prepare a Bill, same Day.On a Committee to prepare an Answer to Governors...
4Deed of Settlement of the Philadelphia Contributionship, 25 March 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...were submitted to the Company and signed. The scheme rested on too narrow a basis, however;
5William Watson to the Royal Society, 20 December 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...We had only at London one thunderstorm; viz. on July 20; and then the thunder was......on the...
6The Albany Plan of Union, 1754 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Public Record Office, London; also copies: Rhode Island Archives,......on a Plan of... ...on...
7Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, [28 May 1754] (Franklin Papers)
To report on their stewardship and demonstrate reasons for continued support by the... ...public...
8Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, 19 August 1755 (Franklin Papers)
...short message, August 9, Morris demanded action on a militia bill such as he had often... ...on...
9Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, 29 September 1755 (Franklin Papers)
On September 24 Morris told the Assembly that its message of... ...to Morris on September 29,...
10Documents on the £60,000 Excise Bill, 13–16 September 1756 (Franklin Papers)
..., for striking £60,000 in bills of credit; after long consideration and some amendment the...
11From George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, 9 November 1756 (Washington Papers)
...for redress, are strong motives. From Fort-Trial, on Smith’s river, I returned to Fort-William...
12David Hall’s Remittances to England, 1757–1765 (Franklin Papers)
...of the bill he had bought, the English firm or public office on which it was drawn, the amount...
13Poor Richard Improved, 1758 (Franklin Papers)
...year expanded to fill not only the usual second page of the pamphlet but also all the... ...on...
14From George Washington to John Blair, 4–10 May 1758 (Washington Papers)
...and after a tedious march (occasioned by the deep snows on the mountains) got on the waters of...
15From George Washington to Henry Bouquet, 3 July 1758 (Washington Papers)
...Regiment and a Company of Artificers of the Second, as you may observe by the Inclosd......on...
16To Benjamin Franklin from Charles Thomson, 10 December 1758 (Franklin Papers)
..., and Franklin as the recipient of both, on the strength of a statement in Franklin’s... ...on...
17From Benjamin Franklin to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, April 1759 (Franklin Papers)
Public Record Office, London...the whole house, which resolved on April 30 that a sum not...
18From Benjamin Franklin to David Hall, 8 April 1759 (Franklin Papers)
...in September when I paid Caslon for it; but on Enquiry I find it was not shipt till November...on
19To Benjamin Franklin from Isaac Norris, 31 July 1759 (Franklin Papers)
Just on closing my last Letter which was on the 14th of June last I added a figure 1... ...on the...
20To Benjamin Franklin from Isaac Norris, 15 April 1760 (Franklin Papers)
When the House Resolved on the Sum of £1,500 to defray the Expences... ...G.B, on the 3d.... ...on...
21The Interest of Great Britain Considered, [17 April 1760] (Franklin Papers)
...the British conquests the ministry should insist on keeping, both to secure the safety of...
22Board of Trade: Report on Pennsylvania Laws, 24 June 1760 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Public Record Office, Colonial Office Papers, 5/1295, pp.......to more public platforms...
23To Benjamin Franklin from Isaac Norris, 26 September 1760 (Franklin Papers)
with the Report of the Board ..., but as it appears by that Report that the Acts were... ...on or...
24Adams’ “Abstract of the Argument”: Ca. April 1761 (Adams Papers)
On the second Tuesday of the Court’s sitting, appointed by the... ...special matters, came on...
25[February 1763] (Adams Papers)
...Draper, a mere Cit, so ignorant of Court and public Business, that he knew not where the
26From Benjamin Franklin to Isaac Norris; Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Accounts: Report, 9, 15, and 19 February 1763 (Franklin Papers)
On Feb. 9, 1763, Franklin drafted a letter to... ...was too personal in tone, so on February 15 he...
27The Postmasters General to the Lords of the Treasury: Memorandum on the American Postal Service, 28 January 1764 (Franklin Papers)
...beginning of next Week” and that Jenkinson might “depend on a Copy of it.”...on the several...
28Explanatory Remarks on the Assembly’s Resolves, [29 March 1764] (Franklin Papers)
On March 30, 1764, the day after the ...your worthy Father’s Remarks on our Assembly Resolves....
29Preface to Joseph Galloway’s Speech, [11 August 1764] (Franklin Papers)
...of the Province of Pennsylvania, May 24, 1764. On Occasion of a Petition drawn up by Order,...
30Papers from the Election Campaign, [September 1764] (Franklin Papers)
...Edition, 9831, reproduced from an original in New York Public Library....issue on its merits...on