5071[Diary entry: 28 August 1764] (Washington Papers)
28. Began—Do. at Creek.
5072[Diary entry: 30 August 1764] (Washington Papers)
30. Began—Do. at Doeg Run.
5073[Diary entry: 31 August 1764] (Washington Papers)
31. Finished curing & Stacking Hay.
5074Papers from the Election Campaign, [September 1764] (Franklin Papers)
I. Printed in The Pennsylvania Journal; and Weekly Advertiser , Sept. 27, 1764, Supplement. II. Broadside: Evans Microprint Edition, 9854, reproduced from an original in University of Pennsylvania Library. III. Photostat, from an original owned, 1929, by T. W. Schreiner, New York City: Yale University Library. IV. Pamphlet: Evans Microprint Edition, 9831, reproduced from an original in New...
5075Cash Accounts, September 1764 (Washington Papers)
Cash Septr 1— To Mr [Charles] Green on acct of Wheat £ 2.10.0 To Cash of Edward Violett to pay Mr [Walter] Magowan 1.10.0 To Cash of Chrr Hardwick for Mr Chs Washington 7. 0.0 Contra Septr 1— By Mr Magowan—the Cash recd of Edd Voilet 1.10.0 5— By two Horse Collars—pd Nelson Kelly 0. 2.6 By Cash paid Nelson Kelly 6. 0.0 7— By Thomas Nicholas bal[anc]e due for his Wages 19.12.0
5076From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, 1 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS American Philosophical Society I wrote a few Lines to you the 9th. of last Month, expressing some Impatience that I had miss’d hearing from you by two Packets. But soon after I had the Pleasure of receiving yours of June 4, and 14. the last by Mr. Allen. I am glad to learn that our Construction of the Article relating to the Proprietor’s located uncultivated Lands is not like to be...
5077From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 1 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library I receiv’d your obliging Letter of June 5. I find by my Letter Book, that I wrote to you May 1. and June 25. I thought I had sent you one of my Narratives. You cannot conceive the Number of bitter Enemies that little Piece has rais’d me among the Irish Presbyterians. I now send you a Pamphlet that I have written since in favour of our projected Change of...
5078From Benjamin Franklin to [Peter Templeman], 2 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Royal Society of Arts Furman & Co. Merchants of this Place, send by Capt. Caton, 60 Keggs of Sturgeon, which they hope will be found so well cured as to obtain the Society’s Approbation, and a Premium. They have desired me to introduce their Claim to you by a Line in its favour; but I have told them the whole will depend on the Merits of their Fish when it comes to London. I can only...
5079From Benjamin Franklin to Anthony Todd, 2 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Public Record Office We have just receiv’d some important News from Presqu’isle on Lake Erie, which it is my Duty to take this first Opportunity of communicating thro’ you to his Majesty’s Postmaster General. The Public Papers, before this can come to hand, will have inform’d you, that Sir William Johnson had held a Treaty at Niagara, and concluded a Peace with all the Indian Nations or...
5080[September 1764] (Washington Papers)
8. Sowed a few Oats to see if they woud stand the Winter (at Doeg Run). 15. Finished Sowing Wheat at Riverside Quarter 50 Bushels. 20. Sowed Wheat as far as Ransoms Houses at Muddy hole 55 Bushels. Elizabeth Ransom, a widow, had rented a farm from GW from 1757 to 1760. 21. Began to cut Tops at Muddy H. & R. Qrs. The practice in GW’s day was to remove the tops and blades from the cornstalks...
5081[Diary entry: 8 September 1764] (Washington Papers)
8. Sowed a few Oats to see if they woud stand the Winter (at Doeg Run).
5082[Diary entry: 15 September 1764] (Washington Papers)
15. Finished Sowing Wheat at Riverside Quarter 50 Bushels.
5083Benjamin Franklin and John Foxcroft: Power of Attorney to Tuthill Hubbart, 17 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
Printed form with MS insertions in blanks: New Hampshire Historical Society Know all Men by these Presents, That we Benjamin Franklin and John Foxcroft Esquires his Majesty’s Deputy Postmaster General for North America , have made, ordained and constituted, and by these Presents do make ordain and constitute, and in our Place and Stead put and depute our trusty and loving Friend Tuthill...
5084From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, 20 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I receiv’d your Favour of June 30. but no Line by this Pacquet. Things are here as they have been for some time past: Except that the Proprietary Party begin to doubt the Success they promis’d themselves at the next Election. Mr. Allen has exerted himself in the House to persuade a Recall of the Petition, but as far as I can perceive, without the least...
5085[Diary entry: 20 September 1764] (Washington Papers)
20. Sowed Wheat as far as Ransoms Houses at Muddy hole 55 Bushels. Elizabeth Ransom, a widow, had rented a farm from GW from 1757 to 1760.
5086From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 20 September 1764 (Washington Papers)
You will now receive Invoices for such Goods as are wanting for Master Custis and myself on York Rivr which I beg may be sent as early as possible as the Hoes will be very much wanted (owing to the useless ones lately sent) and the Seins come too late for the fishing Season if any ways delayed. I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt ALB , DLC:GW . The invoices are in DLC:GW . These goods for the...
5087Benjamin Franklin and John Foxcroft to Anthony Todd, 21 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: American Philosophical Society We wrote you pretty fully of the 4th. Instant, and sent our Letters to New York to be ready for the Packet that has been some time expected. She did not arrive till the 17th. and we have now just receiv’d yours of July 14. with Copies of your preceding Letters and Duplicates of the Papers that accompanied them. Those that were proper for Publication we had...
5088[Diary entry: 21 September 1764] (Washington Papers)
21. Began to cut Tops at Muddy H. & R. Qrs. The practice in GW’s day was to remove the tops and blades from the cornstalks during the fall, leaving the bare stalks standing while the ears ripened. The tops and blades, and later the harvested stalks, became fodder for livestock.
5089Pennsylvania Assembly: Instructions to Richard Jackson, 22 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives , 1763–1764 (Philadelphia, 1764), pp. 105–6. A quorum of the Assembly gathered on September 11 to begin the short final session before its dissolution. The next day Speaker Franklin laid before the House an extract from the journal of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, June 13, 1764, together with the letter to himself...
5090[Diary entry: 22 September 1764] (Washington Papers)
22. Finishd Sowing the Wheat in Corn Ground on this side the Run at Doeg Run Qr. Wint[er] (Wheat) from home 36 Bls. thrashed at the Quartr. 38 Bls. in all 74 Busl. Finishd plan[tin]g. Turnips behind Garden wch. was begun 20th.
5091From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 24 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library I received your kind Letter of June 29. We hear nothing here of the Proprietary”s relenting. If any have it in charge from him to offer Concessions for Peacesake (as we are told from your side the Water they have) they keep them back in hopes the next Election may put the Proprietaries in a Condition not to need the proposing them. A few Days will settle this...
5092From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 24 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Princeton University Library I wrote to you of the first Instant, and sent you a Bill for £13 and a little List of Books to be bought with it. But as Mr. Becket has since sent them to me, I hope this will come time enough to countermand that Order. The Money, if you have receiv’d it, may be paid to Mrs. Stevenson, to whom we have wrote for sundry Things. I thank you for inserting the...
5093To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Moffatt, 24 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I return you thanks for sending me Dr. Heberdens method of inoculating the small pox of which perhaps to you it may not be necessary to say that it bears every mark of Jud[g]ment candour and benevolence. The attention and regard shewn to this treatise in New England by the Authority and these in practise especially at Boston lately will to some very well...
5094From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, 25 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote to you the 1st Instant, and a few Lines last Week per the Packet. Your Favour of June 30. is come to hand. The Assembly rose on Saturday last. Mr. Allen took a great deal of Pains to persuade the House to recall their Petition, but without the least Effect. The Letter sent you by the Committee of Correspondence, with the Petition, being communicated...
5095[Diary entry: 27 September 1764] (Washington Papers)
27. A Negro & Apprentice of Robt. Wrights began to Work upon my Mill. Transplanted Lucerne below Garden & Sowed Rows of St. Foine. GW tried doggedly to raise sainfoin ( Onobrychis viciaefolia ), also called esparcet, a crop now in very limited cultivation in the United States. It does not adapt well in areas where red clover and alfalfa will do much better, as Arthur Young knew when GW asked...
5096From Benjamin Franklin to the Freemen of Pennsylvania, 28 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
Printed broadside: Library Company of Philadelphia; draft (fragment): American Philosophical Society Governor Penn had asked the Assembly for a militia bill on Feb. 4, 1764, and the House sent him one on the 28th. After conferring with his Council the governor returned the bill on March 12 with a series of proposed amendments, but when the House considered the matter on the 17th it took no...
5097From Benjamin Franklin to the Massachusetts House of Representatives Committee, 28 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: Library of Congress I received duly your Letter of the 25th. of June, directed to the Speaker of our Assembly; but the House not meeting till the tenth Instant, I could not sooner acquaint you with their Sentiments on the Matters by you recommended to their Consideration. I have now the Pleasure of informing you, that they concur intirely with your Assembly in the Ends you have in View,...
5098John Adams to Abigail Smith, 30 September 1764 (Adams Papers)
I have this Evening been to see the Girl.—What Girl? Pray, what Right have you to go after Girls?—Why, my Dear, the Girl I mentioned to you, Miss Alice Brackett. But Miss has hitherto acted in the Character of an House-Keeper, and her noble aspiring Spirit had rather rise to be a Wife than descend to be a Maid. To be serious, however, she says her Uncle, whose House she keeps cannot possibly...
5099From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Bouquet, 30 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: British Museum; draft: American Philosophical Society I have been so totally ocupied with the Sitting of the Assembly and other urgent Affairs, that I could not till now do my self the pleasure of writing to you, since the Receipt of your obliging Favours of Aug. 10. and 22. and a subsequent one relating to Broadstreet’s Peace, of which I think as you do. I thank you cordially for so...
5100William Dunlap to Benjamin Franklin and John Foxcroft, [October? 1764] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society This letter and the two that follow directly concern the settlement of accounts between the deputy postmasters general, Franklin and Foxcroft, and William Dunlap, postmaster at Philadelphia from 1757 until 1764, in which year he was replaced by Franklin’s brother, Peter. Since it is not known precisely when Peter Franklin took over the post office in...