51From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 3 October 1775: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract printed in Benjamin Vaughan, ed., Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces...
52From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Priestley, 3 October 1775: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract printed in Benjamin Vaughan, ed., Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces...
53From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 3 October 1775 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Public Record Office Since my Arrival here I have received Four Letters from you, the last...
54From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 16 October 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I arrived here last Night with two other Delegates of the...
55From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Bache, 19[–24] October 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Bristol, R.I., Historical Society We hear you have had an Alarm at Philada. I hope no ill...
56From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Greenleaf, 26 October 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I intended to have called upon you yesterday at Watertown,...
57Song: “The King’s Own Regulars,” 27 November 1775 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Boston Gazette , November 27, 1775. The King’s own REGULARS; And their Triumphs...
58Contract between the Secret Committee and Thomas Mumford for Supplying Gunpowder, 28 November 1775: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Owner anonymous; transcript furnished by courtesy of Dr. Joseph E. Fields, Joliet, Ill. (1957)...
59The Committee of Secret Correspondence to [Arthur Lee], 30 November 1775 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: University of Virginia Library On November 29, 1775, Samuel Chase brought before Congress a...
60From Benjamin Franklin to Israel Pemberton, 30 November 1775 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Dr. Franklin presents his Respects to Mr. Pemberton, and is...
61Proposed Preamble to a Congressional Resolution on Privateering, [before 23 March 1776] (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress On March 23, 1776, in response to petitions from merchants, Congress...
62A Public Notice by Franklin and Robert Morris, 5 December 1775 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , December 6, 1775. Mrs. Brodeau, from England, Takes this...
63From Benjamin Franklin to Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas, 9 December 1775 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from The Port Folio , II (1802), 236–7; extracts: American Philosophical Society;...
64The Committee of Secret Correspondence to [Arthur Lee], 12 December 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Maine Historical Society By this Conveyance we have the Pleasure of transmitting to you...
65From Benjamin Franklin to Don Gabriel Antonio de Bourbon, 12 December 1775 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress; letterpress copy: Yale University Library I have just received through...
66From Benjamin Franklin to Philip Mazzei, 27 December 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Dartmouth College Library It was with great Pleasure I learnt from Mr. Jefferson, that you...
67From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, [on or after 30 December 1775] (Franklin Papers)
AL : Library of Congress Mr. Franklin presents his Compliments to Mr. Morris, and not knowing...
68Memorandum Concerning the Snow Dickinson, [January 1776] (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society On December 26, 1775, the secret committee contracted with...
69Contract between the Secret Committee and John Brown, [before 20 January 1776]: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Copy with DS by Nicholas Brown: John Carter Brown Library <[Before Jan. 20, 1776]: Agreed between...
70Export License from the Secret Committee, 9 January 1776: résumé (Franklin Papers)
DS : University of Pennsylvania Library <Philadelphia, January 9, 1776, to the New Hampshire...
71Contract between the Secret Committee and Oswell Eve and George Losch, 11 January 1776: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Text printed in Samuel Hazard, et al. , eds., Pennsylvania Archives (1st series; 12 vols.,...
72Notes for a Report from the Committee of [Secret] Correspondence, [after 25 January 1776] (Franklin Papers)
Two ADS : National Archives The arrival of captives taken in Canada, and the camp followers who...
73The Committee of Secret Correspondence: a Report to Congress, [on or before 14 February 1776] (Franklin Papers)
AD : National Archives The invasion of Canada, authorized by Congress in June, 1775, had begun in...
74Charter Party between the Secret Committee and Joseph Harper and James King, 1 February 1776: résumé (Franklin Papers)
DS : The Rosenbach Foundation <February 1, 1776: The agreement is between members of the...
75Contract between the Secret Committee and John and Nicholas Brown, 6 February 1776: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Copy: John Carter Brown Library <Philadelphia, February 6, 1776: The Browns will procure in...
76From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Lee, 11 February 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Justin G. Turner, Los Angeles (1959) The Bearer Monsr. Arundel is directed by the Congress...
77From Benjamin Franklin to the Committees of Trenton, Brunswick, and New York, 13 February 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Williams College Library The Bearer John Grace has the Care of a Ton of Gunpowder sent by...
78Charter Party between the Secret Committee and Joseph Hewes, 14 February 1776: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Copy (microfilm): University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill <February 14, 1776: The...
79Proposed Alterations in William Smith’s Oration on General Montgomery, [before 6 March 1776] (Franklin Papers)
AD : Historical Society of Pennsylvania On February 19, 1776, William Smith, Provost of the...
80Contract between the Secret Committee and Silas Deane and Others, 19 February 1776 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: South Carolina Historical Society; copy: Connecticut Historical Society We normally...
81From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Lee, 19 February 1776 (Franklin Papers)
One page reproduced in facsimile in Samuel T. Freeman sales catalogue, February 17, 1947, p. 7;...
82From Benjamin Franklin to the Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 26 February 1776 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania...
83The Committee of Secret Correspondence: Certificate for Silas Deane, [2 March 1776] (Franklin Papers)
DS : Connecticut Historical Society; DS : Library of Congress; copy: South Carolina Historical...
84The Committee of Secret Correspondence: Instructions to Silas Deane, 2 March 1776 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Connecticut Historical Society; copy: Yale University Library; copy: South Carolina...
85From Benjamin Franklin to Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas, 2 March 1776 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from The Port Folio , III , (1803), 214. I wrote to you lately by Mr. Story, and since...
86From Benjamin Franklin to Daniel Roberdeau, 6 March 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Indiana Library The Congress desire a Return to be made to them of the Powder...
87From Benjamin Franklin to Philip Schuyler, 11 March 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New York Public Library The Congress have appointed three Commissioners to go to Canada, of...
88From Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, 24 March 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society Inclos’d is an Answer to the Request from the Inhabitants...
89From Benjamin Franklin to William Alexander, 27 March 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New-York Historical Society I received your obliging Letter some Days since at Philada. but...
90From Benjamin Franklin to Anthony Todd, 29 March 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Public Record Office; copy; American Philosophical Society Being here in my Way to Canada...
91From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 29 March 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have not written to you for some time, partly from the...
92The Commissioners to Canada to [William Heath], 5 April 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : National Archives We this Evening arrived here, and from Curiosity Mr. Chase and Mr....
93From Benjamin Franklin to John Hancock, 13 April 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : National Archives We have been here some Days waiting for General Schuyler’s Orders to...
94From Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Quincy, Sr., 15 April 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I am here on my Way to Canada, detain’d by the present...
95From Benjamin Franklin to Philip Schuyler, 17 April 1776 (Franklin Papers)
AL : New York Public Library We are all concern’d to hear of your Indisposition, and join in...
96From Benjamin Franklin to Philip Schuyler, 12 May 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New York Public Library The enclos’d from the other two Commissioners to me is in answer to...
97From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Carroll and Samuel Chase, 27 May 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New York Public Library We arrived here safe yesterday Evening, having left Mrs. Walker...
98From Benjamin Franklin to Philip Schuyler, 27 May 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New York Public Library We arrived here safe yesterday Evening, in your Post Chaise driven...
99The Committee of Secret Correspondence: Instructions to William Bingham, 3 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania These instructions were composed on the day that Congress...
100The Committee of Secret Correspondence to William Bingham, 3 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society We deliver you herewith two Letters from the secret Committee...