13761[Diary entry: 5 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
5. Clear and Cool. Wind pretty fresh from the No. West.
13762[Diary entry: 6 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
6. At home all day. Mr. Wilper came to Dinner and stayd all Night.
13763[Diary entry: 6 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
6. Again clear and cool wind being in the same place but not so fresh.
13764To George Washington from Francis Willis, Jr., 6 September 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Francis Willis, Jr., 6 Sept. 1773. Thomas Birch’s Sons catalog 663, item 73 lists: “Letters from Francis Willis, Jr., to Col. Geo. Washington, Leesburg, August 16 , September 6 , October 17 , and December 22, 1773 ; and September 1 , December 6, 1774 .”
13765[Diary entry: 7 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
7. At home all day alone except Mr. Magowan & Nelly Calvert.
13766[Diary entry: 7 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
7. Clear and much warmer than yesterday. But little wind & that Southerly.
13767An Infallible Method to Restore Peace and Harmony, 8 September 1773 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Public Advertiser , September 8, 1773. Franklin had long believed that the method outlined here offered the best hope of reconciliation, but he had never before formulated his belief so concretely or expressed it so publicly. His decision to do so at this point may have been related to his recent discovery that the Massachusetts House and Council, speaking for the province, had...
13768[Diary entry: 8 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
8. Mrs. Craig, Mrs. McCarty, Mrs. Chichester & Miss Nancy McCarty came here to Dinner & stayd all Night. mrs. craig : GW probably means Mariamne Ewell Craik, a cousin of Mrs. McCarty. GW and others sometimes spelled Craik’s name “Craig.”
13769[Diary entry: 8 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
8. Clear, calm, and warm.
13770To George Washington from Robert Hanson Harrison, 8 September 1773 (Washington Papers)
I hope that my indisposition will be received as a sufficient excuse for my not having done your Lease sooner, and for the Several black lines and erasements in it, when done; had I been perfectly well, they should not have appeared; however I hope that it will appear sufficiently plain & legible for the Printers—I have made it as short as I could, to be substantial which I flatter myself it...