I take up my pen just to give you an imperfect account of one of the most dreadful Hurricanes that memory or any records whatever can trace, which happened here on the 31st ultimo at night. It began about dusk, at North, and raged very violently till ten o’clock. Then ensued a sudden and unexpected interval, which lasted about an hour. Meanwhile the wind was shifting round to the South West...
2From Benjamin Franklin to John Huske, 6 September 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I have deferred Writing to you agreable to the Caution you gave me, till this safe Opportunity offered. America is infinitely oblig’d to you for your continual good Wishes and Schemes for her Advantage: But I am sorry to tell you that she is here become an Object of Jealousy, and that the obtaining Money from our poor Treasury to forward...
3From Benjamin Franklin to John Walsh, 6 September 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I am glad to find by your Favour of the 27th past, that you are return’d safe and well to Paris after your Expedition to the Sea Coast, and that you intend to publish an Account of your Experiments. Your doing it as you propose in a Letter to me I shall esteem a very great Honour. Nothing new in the philosophic way has occur’d here since...
4[Diary entry: 6 September 1772] (Washington Papers)
6. Went to Church with Govr. Eden in his Phaeton. St. Barnabas Church, located several miles southeast of Mount Lubentia, was the parish church for Jonathan Boucher’s parish of Queen Anne.
5[Diary entry: 6 September 1772] (Washington Papers)
6. Cool & pleasant—Wind still Northwardly.