1Account with James Parker, 1 May 1769, to 14 May 1770: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AD : Yale University Library [The accounts of Parker’s remittances as comptroller of the Post Office run from May 1, 1769, to May 14, 1770; the sixteen bills of exchange listed total £1,1899 19 s . 1 d . The endorsement, in Franklin’s hand, refers to Parker as the “late Comptroller.”] The details of these transactions appear above, XVI , 130, 159, 162, 180, 185, 186, 215–16, 269, and in...
2Adams’ Minutes of the Trial: Plymouth Superior Court, May 1769 (Adams Papers)
Keens Witnesses. Ed. Thomas . Known Georges Meadow 30 Years. Carted the Grass 2 Years. It was a very good Piece of fresh Meadow. I went in with a full Team without miring. Last August I saw it. The Meadow very much altered. The Meadow wet. Ditching and clearing the Brook could not wholly prevent the Damage. Wm. Cox . Deposition. Vid. Elisha Barker . Both Sides lay open to a Pasture 7 Years....
3Adams’ Minutes of the Trial: Plymouth Superior Court, May 1769 (Adams Papers)
Lex Test., Page 576. Stephens vs. Gerard, 1. Sid. 315. Page 571, Sackville vs. Brown. Page 576, Chadron v. Harris, Noy 12. Leonard . Zechh. Daman . In the latter Part of his Life, he seemed not so capable, intosticated and Passionate. Good Ideas. Bezaliel Curtis . A good deal of Judgment once. He seemed to be in a hurry, a fury, &c. I did not look upon him the Man he used to be. One time he...
Prov. Law. 16. 33. 386. Temp orary Laws. About Certificates for Anabaptist Ministers and People, to be used in the Case following of Worth ington . All wise States have seen the Necessity of some Religion for the Support of Society. The Happiness of Brit ish dominions that an order of Men. The Romans and Grecians would have thought themselves happy if they had had such an order of Men. All...
28. H. 8, c. 15. For Pirates. The Statute on which this Court is founded is 11th. & 12th. Wm. 3rd, C. 7. An Act for the more effectual suppression of Piracy. 6. Ann, c. 37, §9. Impresses in America prohibited. This act perpetual, 1. because of the Title. 2. the Preamble, in two Parts, for Ad vancement of Trade, and increase of Shipping and Seamen. 4. the same Clauses in their Nature...
28th. Hen. 8th. c. 15. “For Pirates.” Where Traytors, Pirates, Thieves, Robbers, Murtherers, and Confederates upon the Sea, many times escaped unpunished, because the Tryal of their offences, hath heretofore been ordered, judged and determined before the Admiral, or his Lieutenant or Commissary, after the Course of the civil Laws, the Nature whereof is, that before any Judgment of Death can be...
Humbly shews Michael Corbit of Marblehead in the County of Essex, Mariner that this Hon’ble Court ought not to take Cognizance of the Matters and Things sett forth and alledged in the said Articles exhibited against him by Ezekiel Price Gentleman, because the said Michael says, that by an Act of Parliament made in the Twenty Eighth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, it is among other...
And the said Ezekiel Price says, that he to the said plea of the said John Ryan above pleaded to the Jurisdiction of this honorable Court, has no necessity nor is he oblidged by the Law of the Land in any manner to answer, because he says that the same plea is not sufficient in Law to put this honorable Court from taking further Cognizance of the Matters and Things contained in the Articles...
Mr. Carnes. Simpson. Clark. Of Mrs. Thorntons, I bought them, one Pair. Wm. Simpson. I bought another Pair of Mrs. Thornton. Mrs. Hunt. I sold a Pair to William Clark. I had em of Reader. He told me he had em of Thos. Smith. Mrs. Thornton. I sold a Pair to Simpson. I bo’t em of Reader. He told me he had em from his friends in England. I gave 2 Pist areens, Pistoles and half a Pint of Rum. Wm....
10[May 1769] (Washington Papers)
May 1. Set out from Peytons & passing thro Fredericksburg reachd Hubbards Ordy. 2. Got to Eltham—after foundg. my Horse. GW crossed the Pamunkey at Sweet Hall as he had during the previous year, but since his last trip the name of the ferry there had changed from Claiborne’s to Ruffin’s. Robert Ruffin, a wealthy planter formerly of Dinwiddie County, had recently acquired Sweet Hall and the...
11An Acct.—of the Weather—in May [1769] (Washington Papers)
May 1. Threatning Morning but clear and pleasant about 10 with little wind and that westwardly. 2. Clear and tolerably warm in the forenoon, but very cold in the Evening the Wind getting to No. Wt. and North. 3. Cool and clear with the Wind Northwardly. Evening more moderate. 4. Clear and pleasant but rather cool. 5. Clear. Wind Southwardly—and warm. 6. Threatning Morning, & black clouds. Abt....
12Cash Accounts, May 1769 (Washington Papers)
Cash May 1— To Ditto [cash] of Mr Chas Smith by Mr Edd Taylor £ 5. 0. 6 3— To Ditto Won at Cards 4.17. 6 4— To Ditto borrowed of Colo. Fieldg Lewis 50. 0. 0 6— To Ditto recd of Mr P[hilip] Whitehd Claiborne for a years Interest of his Bond 14. 0. 0 8— To Ditto recd from Mr Wm Dandridge on Acct of Do. 22. 0. 5 9— To Ditto recd of Doctr Js Carter for a years Intt of Mrs [Joanna] McKenzies Bond...
13Ezra Stiles: Memoir and Conjecture, 1 May 1769 (Franklin Papers)
AD (draft): Yale University Library This brief memorandum on Franklin reveals a suspiciousness that Stiles never openly expressed. On the surface he was all admiration for his old friend. He wanted a copy of Franklin’s Oxford diploma, listed his other honors, hoped he would be made a baronet, and asked to perpetuate his own name by editing for posterity the works of “my dear Maecenas.” But...
14[Diary entry: 1 May 1769] (Washington Papers)
May 1. Set out from Peytons & passing thro Fredericksburg reachd Hubbards Ordy.
15[Diary entry: 1 May 1769] (Washington Papers)
May 1. Threatning Morning but clear and pleasant about 10 with little wind and that westwardly.
16To George Washington from William Peareth, 1 May 1769 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Peareth, 1 May 1769. On 20 Sept. 1770 GW wrote to Peareth : “Your letter of the 1st of May 1769 . . . came to the Exrs . . . about 1st of Decr last.”