1William Whately’s Chancery Suit against Franklin: I. The Bill in Equity, 7 January 1774: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Summary of DS in the Public Record Office; copy: State House, Boston Franklin considered this suit as a stab in the back. He believed that it was the consequence of his revealing his part in the affair of the Hutchinson letters, which he had done in order to end the quarrel between John Temple and William Whately and which should have earned him the gratitude of both. Whately was further in...
2William 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...