1William Whately’s Chancery Suit: III. Exceptions to Franklin’s Answer, [after 19 April 1774 and before 28 June 1774] … (Franklin Papers)
Summary of incomplete copy: American Philosophical Society The plaintiff’s exceptions are, to the best of our knowledge, the last extant pleadings in the case; and the copy breaks off in the middle. Madocks, Whately’s counsel, entered the exceptions later than the rules of the court permitted; on that ground Sayer, acting for Franklin, argued that they were inadmissible. The court overruled...
2[Diary entry: 20 April 1774] (Washington Papers)
20. Rid to the Fishing Landg. at Johnson’s. Mr. Herbert & Mr. Stewart came home with us to Dinner. Mrs. Brown dined here & in the Aftern. Colo. Mason, Doctr. Brown, Mr. Jno. Cook, & my Brother John came. John Travers Cook (1755–1823), of Stafford County, married Mary Thomson Mason, daughter of George Mason of Gunston Hall.
3[Diary entry: 20 April 1774] (Washington Papers)
20. Clear and very warm with but little Wind & that Southerly.
4Note on Franklin’s Contributions to a Pamphlet by Arthur Lee, [before 30 May 1774] (Franklin Papers)
Incomplete AD in Lee’s hand with Franklin’s additions: American Philosophical Society The report of the House of Lords that castigated the rebellious attitude of Massachusetts was published on April 20. Arthur Lee, before leaving on his European tour, composed an answer, which was announced in the Public Advertiser on May 30. Franklin subsidized the pamphlet, entitled A True State of the...