Benjamin Franklin Papers

From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, [9 October 1767]

To William Franklin

MS not found; extract reprinted from [Jared Sparks, ed.], A Collection of the Familiar Letters and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Boston, 1833), p. 281.

[October 9, 1767]

I returned last night from Paris, and just now hear that the Ilinois settlement is approved of in the Cabinet Council, so far as to be referred to the Board of Trade for their opinion, who are to consider it next week.8

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8. Shelburne presented his proposed western policy to the Cabinet on Sept. 11, 1767, and the Cabinet voted to refer it to the Board of Trade for report the same day. Alvord and Carter, eds., Trade and Politics, pp. 12–21. The plan warmly supported the proposal for several new governments in the interior of British North America. See also Jack M. Sosin, Whitehall and the Wilderness (Lincoln, Neb., 1961), pp. 153–60.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, [9 October 1767]
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    “From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, [9 October 1767],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-14-02-0163. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 14, January 1 through December 31, 1767, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1970, p. 275.]

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