1361To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Parker, 7 July 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society James Parker has occupied so many pages of these volumes that his departure from the scene deserves an obituary. His friendship with Franklin extended over almost three decades, during which their careers were in some respects strikingly parallel. Both were runaways in their youth; both helped to establish a number of newspapers on the eastern seaboard;...
1362To Benjamin Franklin from a Committee of the Town of Boston, 13 July 1770 (Franklin Papers)
DS : Massachusetts Historical Society The Bostonians had long suspected that they were being traduced in England by false reports of what was happening in the town. After the Massacre the suspicion grew. On March 16 a Captain Robson sailed for London with dispatches from Lieutenant Colonel William Dalrymple, commander of the troops, and with Captain Preston’s account of his part in the...
1363To Benjamin Franklin from John Pownall, 14 July 1770: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Library of Congress [Whitehall, July 14, 1770. Requests Franklin’s attendance at the Board of Trade on Wednesday next, the 18th, in regard to several laws passed in Pennsylvania in 1769. ] Pownall was writing as secretary to the Board. For the meeting in question see Board of Trade Jour ., 1768–75, pp. 200–1.
1364To Benjamin Franklin from W. Masters, 17 July 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Your kind reply to what I formerly wrote you in favour of Thos: Truck a Soldier in the trane, together with his and Father in law’s perpetual entreaties that I would once more befriend them by writing to you; emboldens me to remind you off your Promise of Endeavouring to procure his discharge; which would be a completion of Earthly Happiness to a poor yet...
1365To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Gilpin, 19 July 1770: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract: reprinted from “Memoir of Thomas Gilpin,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , XLIX (1925), 313. Since my last New York has relaxed from the non-importation agreement but this and the other provinces stand fixed although we have an account here from a vessel spoken in going to Boston that the Tea duty has been taken off. But perhaps not to BF ; see the headnote to Gilpin’s...
1366To Benjamin Franklin from Abel James, 19 July 1770 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society I take the Liberty to repeat my Request to thee that Thou wilt lay before James West Esqr. the Inclos’d Paper, hoping that, that worthy Gentleman will give Orders to the Executor of Peter Razor deceased to let me dispose of the Trunk of Cloaths as he desir’d me to do by the within mention’d Paper, which I got proved before I left Philada. The other Trunk...
1367To Benjamin Franklin from James Gambier, [before 20 July? 1770] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Capt. Gambiers Compliments to Dr. Franklyn, and calld on him to have askd the favor of his Sentiments relative to a Man that Comm[issione?]r Robinson mentiond to Mr. Gambier as a proper person to recomend to take lease of a light House. For the naval career of James Gambier (1723–89) see DNB . The note is said to be c . 1784 and in French in I. Minis Hays,...
1368To Benjamin Franklin from Dorothea Blunt, 26 July 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Be assur’d that I feel very kindly to you for the favour I receiv’d this Morning. It was not more than I wanted, tho much more than I expected——not because more than you would have given sooner if the state of my Mind had been known to you, but because you gave me unask’d the strongest proof of a tender and disinterested friendship, which tho I had no...
1369To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Parker, 12 August 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society It is with inexpressable Grief that I am Obliged to give you an Account of my Dear Mr. Parkers Death. He kept his house the Greatest part of the Winter with the gout and an inflamation in his Legg. The 4 June as soon as he could git Abroad, his Anxiety to doe his duty as Comptroller Carried him Down to New Town; On his return he fell ill at Bristol; was...
1370To Benjamin Franklin from Deborah Franklin, 16 August 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society yisterday I reseved yours of June the 10. I am verey Sorrey to thinke I shold not have it in my power to atend on you. When will it be in your power to Cume home? How I long to see you but I wold not say one word that wold give you one momentes trubel. I will then tell you that as to my helthe I am as well as I ever expeckte to be and I thinke better then I...