1The Colonial Agents: Card to Christopher D’Oyley, 2 May 1765 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser , May 2, 1765. During April 1765 the pending bill for quartering British troops in America engaged the active attention of the colonial agents and their British merchant allies. They vigorously opposed any provisions that would impose on the colonists requirements to which the inhabitants of England were not also subject under existing law. Of...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Lloyd, 2 May 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The Assembly of this Colony having voted one hundred Pounds Sterling towards the Establishment of a Post thro the Province, I sometime ago at the Desire of the late Governor Dobbs wrote a Letter on that Subject, which he sign’d, to your Colleague Mr. Foxcroft of Virginia, requesting that the Intention of the Legislature might be carry’d into Execution—with...