1From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Ingersoll, 19 December 1763 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library Mr. Holt, late of your Town, Postmaster, having fallen in Debt to the Office £320 18 s . 9 d . lawful Money, which seems not likely to be otherwise obtained, this is to request and impower you to endeavour the Recovery of that Sum, by attaching what you can find of his Estate in your Government. I hear he has lately made a considerable Purchase there. Mr. Green...