1Thomas Lloyd to ———, 30 [31?] January 1756 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: American Philosophical Society I now sit down to give you an Account of Part of the Operations of our Campaign. It will hardly be more difficult for you to understand it than for me in our present Situation to transmit it to you. We marched on Wednesday Jan. 15 from Bethlehem for Gnadenhutten beyond the Mountains in Order to erect a Fort there with Seven Waggons and a Cart escorted by...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Lloyd, 2 May 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The Assembly of this Colony having voted one hundred Pounds Sterling towards the Establishment of a Post thro the Province, I sometime ago at the Desire of the late Governor Dobbs wrote a Letter on that Subject, which he sign’d, to your Colleague Mr. Foxcroft of Virginia, requesting that the Intention of the Legislature might be carry’d into Execution—with...