52321To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Gilpin, 15 November 1770: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract: reprinted from “Memoir of Thomas Gilpin,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , XLIX (1925), 314–15. Politics are now rather at a low ebb: nor do I expect they will revive; it will take some time to restore the public agitation and eradicate the remembrance of what has passed: the cause of injury is yet fresh and like a man that has been prompted to delirium time must be...
52322To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Gilpin, 29 January 1769 (Franklin Papers)
Extract: reprinted from “Memoir of Thomas Gilpin,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , XLIX (1925), 302–3. This letter is the first surviving one in a correspondence that continued, insofar as it is extant, until November, 1770. Thomas Gilpin belonged to a wealthy Quaker family; although he had estates in Maryland and Delaware, his principal residence was Philadelphia. His fortune...
52323To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Gilpin, 6 February 1769 (Franklin Papers)
Extracts: reprinted from “Memoir of Thomas Gilpin,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , XLIX (1925), 303. Our last advices of ministerial and parliamentary measures has revived the motion of a non-importation of manufactures from Great Britain; for myself I should have rather preferred to confine it to particular articles suited to the convenience of each colony which would have...
52324To 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...
52325To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Gilpin, 10 October 1769 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Joshua Gilpin, A Memoir of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Wilmington, Del., 1821), pp. 15–17, with additions from Thomas Gilpin, Jr., “Memoir of Thomas Gilpin, “ Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , XLIX (1925), 305–7. This letter from Franklin’s new-found correspondent, Thomas Gilpin, is a minor but interesting...
52326To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Gilpin, 16 May 1769 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from “Memoir of Thomas Gilpin,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , XLIX (1925), 304. By the brig Ketly Capt. Osborne I have sent you the model of a machine the result of a thought occurring to me some time ago which I have realised in the present form. It is that of an horizontal windmill applied to three pumps——this application as one of the most useful for raising...
52327To Benjamin Franklin from ——— de Gimat, 19 January 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <Vic Fezensac, January 19, 1778, in French: M. de Gimat, an officer in the Viennois regiment, went to your country with Lafayette. He has only once sent us word, that they had landed in Carolina and were on their way to join the army. We are worried to have heard no more. My cousin was in several actions, we know, and his poor mother has asked me to find...
52328To George Washington from Gimat, 18 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
The remembrance of the kindness which your Excellency shewed me when I had the honor of serving under your orders, gives me great hope that one of my friends, a man of rare and distinguished merit, will obtain your good will & deserve Your esteem, during the stay which he proposes to make in North America, whether he goes for the re-establishment of his health, which cannot support the warm...
52329To George Washington from Gimat, 12 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
I embrace with the highest pleasure the opportunity of my friend comte de Kersaint commanding a small fleet bounding to cheaseapeak bay, to present the hommages of my heart to your Exellency and to renew the respectful attachement which has devoted for ever to you. I Wished most ardently to follow comte de Kersaint for enjoing the happiness of paying a visit to you dear general, to offer you...
52330To George Washington from Gimat, 5 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Daprés Touttes Les marques des Bontés que vous avés daigné me prodigué pandant Le siege diork & dont je suis demuré jusqua presant penetré de Reconoisance & Celles que vous avés particulieremant pour mon frere qui a Eu Lhoneur de servir sous vos ordres pandant Les dernieres années de la Guerre de votre pays. Permetés moy de man faire un Titre pour vous demander un Grasse, qui Est Celle dagréer...