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1681 Franklin, Benjamin Request for Information on Lightning, 21 June 1753 1753-06-21 Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , June 21, 1753. ⁂ Those of our Readers in this and the...
1682 Franklin, Benjamin Additional Instructions to the Deputy Postmasters of … 1758-03-10 Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , April 20, 1758. Whereas the News-papers of the several...
1683 Franklin, Benjamin Marginalia in [Matthew Wheelock], Reflections Moral and … 1770-01-01 MS notations in a copy in the Library of Congress of [Matthew Wheelock], Reflections Moral and...
1684 Franklin, Benjamin Introduction to John Pringle’s Account of Gaol Fever, 4 … 1755-09-04 Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , September 4, 1755. This introduction preceded a reprinting...
1685 Franklin, Benjamin Remarks on the Proprietors’ Instructions to Governor … 1752-07-02 MS Minutes: Pennsylvania Hospital July 2, 1752 This document, composed by Franklin and Israel...
1686 Franklin, Benjamin Norris, Charles Statement of Account with Charles Norris, 5 August 1762 1762-08-05 ADS : Franklin Institute, Philadelphia Dr. Cha. Norris Esqr. 1757 Dec. 6. Compleat Body of...
1687 Franklin, Benjamin [Reflections on Courtship and Marriage, 17 April 1746] 1746-04-17 Reflections on Courtship and Marriage: in Two Letters to a Friend. Wherein a Practicable Plan is...
1688 Franklin, Benjamin A Scolding Wife, 5 July 1733 1733-07-05 Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , July 5, 1733. In the copy of this issue of the Gazette in...
1689 Franklin, Benjamin Pennsylvania Hospital: Law for Regulating the Elections … 1752-01-17 DS : Pennsylvania Hospital January 17, 1752 This document, drafted by Joshua Crosby, Thomas Bond,...
1690 Franklin, Benjamin Philadelphia Post Office Accounts, 1757–1764 1757-03-30 MS account papers: American Philosophical Society In addition to the Philadelphia Post Office...
1691 Franklin, Benjamin Paper on the Academy, [31 July 1750] 1750-07-31 MS Minutes of the Common Council: Free Library of Philadelphia Within a few weeks of their...
1692 Bollan, William Three Public Notices Concerning the Petition from the … 1775-01-17 I and II: printed in The Whitehall Evening Post , respectively January 19–21 and 14–17, 1775;...
1693 Franklin, Benjamin Account of the Death of Georg Richmann, 5 March 1754 1754-03-05 Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , March 5, 1754. This account of the death of Professor Georg...
1694 Franklin, Benjamin The Manner of Drawing a Public Lottery, 22 December … 1747-12-22 Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , December 22, 1747. This explanation is an integral part of...
1695 Franklin, Benjamin [Of the Usefulness of Mathematics, 30 October 1735] 1735-10-30 Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , October 30, 1735. First reprinted by Duane ( Works , IV ,...
1696 Franklin, Benjamin Note on Franklin’s Sketch of How to Force a Wheel Round … 1757-01-01 AD : American Philosophical Society For some years we have been trying and failing to answer two...
1697 Franklin, Benjamin On Literary Style, 2 August 1733 1733-08-02 Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , August 2, 1733; also draft: Historical Society of...
1698 Franklin, Benjamin Epitaph of Josiah and Abiah Franklin, [May 1757] 1757-05-01 Printed in The New-England Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure , 1 (1758), 58. Franklin composed...
1699 Franklin, Benjamin Hewson, William William Hunter’s Stipulations in Regard to William … 1771-08-23 AD : extract from Franklin to William Hunter, October 30, 1772 , Royal College of Surgeons Dr....
1700 Franklin, Benjamin Miscellaneous Business Memoranda, 1731 1731-01-01 MSS : American Philosophical Society Volume 66 of the Franklin Papers in the American...
1701 Franklin, Benjamin Proprietors Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital: Memorial to the … 1751-07-06 DS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania; also draft and copy in Minutes, Pennsylvania Hospital...
1702 Franklin, Benjamin Query to the Casuist: The Case of the Missing Horse, 18 … 1732-01-18 Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 18, 1731/2. In one of your Papers about two Years...
1703 Franklin, Benjamin Record of Service in the Assembly, 1751–64 1751-08-13 AD : Library of Congress Near the end of his life, probably after his return from France, to...
1704 Franklin, Benjamin Poor Richard Improved, 1757 1757-01-01 Poor Richard improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris … for the Year of our Lord 1757: … By...
1705 Franklin, Benjamin Militia Act, [25 November 1755] 1755-11-25 Printed in Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Vigesimo Nono....
1706 Franklin, Benjamin Marginalia in An Inquiry, an Anonymous Pamphlet, [1770] 1770-01-01 MS notations in the margins of a copy in the New York Public Library of An Inquiry into the...
1707 Franklin, Benjamin Documents on the Hearing of William Smith’s Petition … 1758-04-27 I. Copy: Penn Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. II. MS : Boston Public Library. III. AD...
1708 Franklin, Benjamin Memorandum of Wagon Accounts, 23 April 1755 1755-04-23 AD : American Philosophical Society Much of Franklin’s thought and energy in the spring and...
1709 Franklin, Benjamin Account of Expenses, 1757–1762 1757-04-01 MS account book: American Philosophical Society “Account of Expences of my Voyage to England...
1710 Franklin, Benjamin Journal of a Voyage, 1726 1726-07-22 MS not found; reprinted from WTF, Memoirs , 4to edit., I , Appendix, i-xix; also transcript:...