159122 Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Suppos a nation in some distant Region, should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. Every member would be obliged in Concience to temperance and frugality and industry, to justice and kindness and Charity towards his fellow men, and to Piety and Love, and reverence towards almighty God. In this Commonwealth, no...
1592From Benjamin Franklin to Elizabeth Hubbart, 22 February 1756 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from The Massachusetts Magazine, or Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment , I (1789), 100. I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; ’tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not...
159323 Monday. (Adams Papers)
Fair weather. Crawford spent the Evening here.
1594Position of Troops in Northampton County, [23 February 1756] (Franklin Papers)
AD : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Capt. Vanetten at Minisinks, a Lieut. and 30 Men Capt. Craig at Fort Hamilton 41 Lieut. Wetterhold at Broadhead’s 26 Ensign Sterling at Wind Gap Teet’s House 11 Capt. Orndt at Fort Norris 50 Capt. Wayne at Fort Allen 50 A Sergeant at Uplingers and 5 An Ensign of Wetterhold’s at Drucker’s Mill and
159524 Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
A fine morning. We are told that Demosthenes transcribed the history of Thucidides 8 times, in order to imbibe and familiarize the elegance and strength of his stile. Will it not then be worth while for a candidate for the ministry to transcribe Dr. Tillotson’s Works.
1596To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Hunter Morris: Commission, 24 February 1756 (Franklin Papers)
Printed form with MS insertions in blanks; American Philosophical Society After the bitter year-end controversy over commissioning the officers elected under the terms of the new militia law, the matter rested for a month while Governor Morris and the law’s chief proponent, Benjamin Franklin, were absent from Philadelphia. On February 12, a week after Franklin’s return to the city, he was...
159725 Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Fair and cold Weather. An extream cold night.
1598To Benjamin Franklin from Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg, 25 February 1756 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Archives of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem Mr. Nathanael Seidel, the Bearer of this, can tell you, how it goes in our Parts, especially with the Refugees, residing as yet at Bethlehem, Nazareth etc. Some of them were removed again to their Plantations, and others were upon returning tither; but when the Account came of the new Mischief, done lately by the Enemy at Allmangel; the latter...
159926 Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
Fair cold morning. An extream cold Day.
1600To George Washington from Landon Carter, 26 February 1756 (Washington Papers)
The Bearer Mr John Lawson having heard of nothing to discourage his Military inclination now comes to put himself in the Situation of a Cadet he is of a Family in Lancaster descended from the Steptoes by the mother side and I have told him that there are many waiting before him but as I learn there are three vacancys in the Company of Ensigns the number standing before him will be fewer[.] I...