1To Benjamin Franklin from Alexander Colden, 2 June 1773: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <General Post Office, New York, June 2, 1773: Wrote him on May 5 and sent the accounts through April 5 last; also sent first bills of exchange, of which he now encloses seconds: John Bonfield on Quarles Harris, £80; Thomas Boylston on Champion & Dickason, £100; George Erwin on Lane, Son & Fraser, £120; Benjamin Ogles on James Anderson, £83 10 s. 3 d. ;...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Alexander Colden, 6 August 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The 2d of last Month I wrote you by the Packet in Answer to yours of the first of May. I have since made strict search for Mr. Jessers letter but can’t find it. By order of Mr. Foxcroft Inclosed I send you the second set of those Bills, he sent last Packet. Mr. Foxcroft and Lady are both at Boston and in good health the last Letter [ torn: I had from?] him....
3To Benjamin Franklin from Alexander Colden, 2 July 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The [favour?] of yours of the first May I received by the Duke of Cumberland Packet [ torn ]. Mr. Foxcroft and his Lady who I have the Pleasure to [have seen] at this time tells me he has wrote to you by this Packet and mentioned that upon his return to this place from visiting the offices to the Eastward the Accounts in the late Comptroller’s books will be...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Alexander Colden, 7 January 1773: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <General Post Office, January 7, 1773: Has received Franklin’s letter of October 7 acknowledging receipt of several bills, and of Nov. 3 enclosing Mackie’s bill on Molleson for £294 5 s. 2 d. with the protest, which Colden will transmit to him. Encloses the second bill for £150 sterling by John Hancock on Haley & Hopkins in favor of Tuthill Hubbart; the...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Alexander Colden, 7 July 1773: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <General Post Office, New York, July 7, 1773: Has received Franklin’s letter of April 7 by the Lord Hyde , packet, and is glad to know that the accounts sent on March 3 have arrived; had hoped to hear by the Duke , packet, that they had been approved, but did not. Encloses Willing & Morris’s second Bill on Harris [Herries] & Co. for £15; the first went by...
6From Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Colden, 2 February 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I receiv’d yours of Dec. 2. enclosing a Bill Hancock on Haley & Hopkins for £150 for Account of the Gen. Post-Office. Inclos’d I return you the Bill, Dunn on Long, Drake and Long, for £100 Sterling, with the Protest which costs 5 s. 9 d. I hope you are careful to give me Credit for these Protested Bills. I sent you two per last Packet, and one by...
7From Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Colden, 3 November 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress Inclos’d I return to you Mackie’s Bill on Molleson for £294. 5 s. 2 d. with a Protest; the same being refus’d Payment for want of Effects. The Packet of last Month is not yet arriv’d. I hope she will bring the Accounts so long expected. I am, Dear Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant See above, BF to Colden, Oct. 7; Mary Hewson to BF , Oct. 22. BF...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Colden, 1 September 1773: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress <London, September 1, 1773: Has received Colden’s of July 7, enclosing Archimedes Georges on Curtis & Lowell for £113 and Norris Goddard on Anthony Todd for £69. Is glad to hear that Colden and his family are well.>
9From Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Colden, 3 August 1773: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress <West Wycomb, at Lord Le Despencer’s, August 3, 1773: Has received Colden’s of June 2 enclosing seconds of “sundry Bills acknowledg’d in my last” and the first of Willing & Morris on Harris & Co. for £15. Encloses Ogle’s protested bill on Anderson for £83 10 s. 3 d. , which with charges totals £83 16 s. Compliments to Mrs. Colden.> See the letter BF...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Colden, 7 October 1772: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress <London, October 7, 1772. Has acknowledged in previous letters the receipt of bills amounting to £372 10 s. and another of £56 12 s. 5½ d. ; has since received three totaling £328 2 s. 3 d. , one of Mackie on Molleson and two of Carr on James Russell, and by the last packet, with Colden’s letter of September 3, four more: Boylstone on Lane, Son &...