1From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Gilpin, 10 July 1769 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your Favour per Capt. Osborne, with the Model of your Machine for raising Water. The Manner in which you have apply’d a single Crank for the Working of three Pumps, wherein the whole Force is apply’d to each, and yet in such quick Succession that there is no Loss of Time, appears to me so extreamly ingenious, that I have scarce ever seen a new...
2[Diary entry: 10 July 1769] (Washington Papers)
10. Rid to Muddy hole in the forenoon. After dinner rid to Captn. Posey’s where Mr. Jno. West was Surveying—and then to my wheat field again. Sally Carlyle came in the Afternoon. John West, Jr., and Philip Alexander, attorney for John Posey, were today surveying the strip where Posey’s house and ferry were located in preparation for a hearing of West’s suit to evict Posey from the property...
3[Diary entry: 10 July 1769] (Washington Papers)
10. Light thin showers at times till between 2 and 3 Oclock when it broke away.