1“Americanus”: On Obstructions in the Thames, 22 August 1766 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted in Verner W. Crane, ed., Benjamin Franklin’s Letters to the Press 1758–1775 (Chapel Hill, [1950]), pp. 77–8, from The Public Advertiser , August 22, 1766. In accepting Verner Crane’s tentative attribution of “this pleasing little piece” the present editors cannot do better than to endorse his explanation, wherein he gives more weight “to the signature, and to general impressions of...
2From Benjamin Franklin to the Speaker and Committee of Correspondence of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 22 August 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library In mine of June 10th. I acquainted you that I was about to make a Journey for the Establishment of my Health. I accordingly went to Pyrmont, where I drank the Waters some Days; but relying more on the Air and Exercise of Travelling, I proceeded to Hanover, and from thence thro’ Cassel to Frankfurt and Mentz, thence down the Rhine to Cologne, and so thro’ Treves to...
3From Benjamin Franklin to ——: Two Letters of Recommendation, 22 August 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society These two drafts of documents appear on the same badly torn and stained sheet, both have the same date, and both are written on behalf of other persons. It seems appropriate, therefore, to present them together, especially since the addressee of neither letter is certainly known. The first document, apparently intended as a certificate of character for...
4[Diary entry: 22 August 1766] (Washington Papers)
22. Began to Sow Wheat at Doeg Run. Finishd Sowing up Cut in the Neck.
5From George Washington to Joshua Pollard, 22 August 1766 (Washington Papers)
Your Bills of Loading for my Tobacco are come to hand, by which it woud appear that the Tobacco was Shipd in good order, whereas I am informed (and by mere chance too) that some of the Tobo was entirely ruind & the whole much damaged—I have in consequence sent the bearer Mr Lund Washington to examine into a state of it, and to have the damages settled upon an equitable footing; or, if this...
6From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 22 August 1766 (Washington Papers)
Since my last of the 21st Ulto the Goods by Captn Wylie are come to hand, among which the Wheat Riddles are so entirely useless that I shall be under a necessity of sending them back, or keeping them by me as useless lumber—This coud not possibly have happened had my directions of the 6th of November last been attended to for there I expressly desired Sand Sieves for the purpose of Sifting out...
7To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 22 August 1766 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 22 Aug. 1766. On 20 July 1767 GW wrote to them : “Your favours of the 19th July, 22d of August . . . [are] all lying before me.”