5441To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 22 September 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; extract: Public Record Office Yours of July 6. I received Thursday Night last, and the next Day I went down to Philadelphia, by Order from Mr. Foxcroft, so to do, assoon as the Packet came in, as he expected to receive a Draught of a Table of Rates from you; but by yours to him we are directed to make such Table here: There were a Number of Tables of Rates...
5442To Benjamin Franklin from Daniel Wister, 22 September 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (fragment): American Philosophical Society [ First part missing ] understand the German Language. I have at present nothing more to add, but that I remain, with my best wishes, for your health, happiness and speedy return among us, Your most assured Friend Addressed: Philada / To / Benjamin Franklin Esqr. / in / London Endorsed: D. Wister Sept. 22. 1765 Daniel Wister (1738–1805), the son...
5443[Diary entry: 22 September 1765] (Washington Papers)
22. This Week they workd 22 days upon her. Here GW means man-days. Hence, if four of the six slave carpenters GW had in 1765 worked a 5½-day workweek they would have put in 22 man-days for that week.
5444To Benjamin Franklin from Zachariah Hood, 23 September 1765 (Franklin Papers)
Extract: Public Record Office Extract of a Letter from Mr. Zachary Hude [Zachariah Hood], Distributor of Stamps for the Province of Maryland, dated at New York, Sept. 23. 1765. Our Province (Maryland) is extreamly heated. They have cut an Officer of the Tender in a shocking manner, pull’d down my House, and obliged me to flie (with a single Suit) or expect the same Fate as the Officer. Stamp...
5445[Diary entry: 23 September 1765] (Washington Papers)
23. Began to sow Wheat from Colo. Colvils in Peach Orchard, & finishd 24th.—4 Bushls. Began to cut my Meadows at Hell hole & Creek. Col. Thomas Colvill (d. 1766), of Cecil County, Md., had inherited Cleesh, on the south side of Great Hunting Creek, from his brother John (d. 1756).
5446I. Adams’ Original Draft, 24 September 1765 (Adams Papers)
In all the Calamities, which have ever befallen this our dear native Country, since our the first settlement within the Memory of the oldest of Us all, We have never felt So great and sincere a Grief, and Concern or So many Allarming Fears and Apprehensions, as at the present Time. We have many of Us lived to see, both Pestilence and Scarcity, and the Encroachments And Depredations,...
5447II. Instructions Adopted by the Braintree Town Meeting, 24 September 1765 (Adams Papers)
The Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Braintree Qualifyd to vote in Town affairs being assembled at the Meeting House in the Middle Precinct of said Town pursuant to warrants for assembling said Town To inform their Representative Respecting their Sentiments Relative to the Stamp Act And other matters of Grievance, Also to see if the Town will instruct their Representative on...
5448To Benjamin Franklin from Charles Thomson, 24 September 1765 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from extract in London Chronicle , November 14–16, 1765. Yes, my friend, I grant that “Idleness and Pride tax with a heavier hand than Kings and Parliaments,” “and that frugality and industry will go a great way towards endemnifying us.” But the misfortune is, the very thing that renders industry necessary cuts the sinews of it. With industry and frugality the subjects...
5449[Diary entry: 24 September 1765] (Washington Papers)
24. Took up Flax which had been in Water since the 12th. viz. 12 days. flax : Linum usitatissimum . Arthur Young chided GW 19 May 1789 for wasting his time with flax. “What in the name of wonder can you do with flax? Not make linnen I hope; buy from England, from France, from Russia, anywhere rather than employ a soul in fabrics while wastes surround you by millions” ( DLC:GW ).
5450To Benjamin Franklin from Lords Bessborough and Grantham: Commission to Benjamin Franklin and John Foxcroft, 25 … (Franklin Papers)
Copy: General Post Office, London In the summer of 1765 the British postal service in North America was divided into two jurisdictions: a northern district, stretching from Virginia through Canada, and a southern district, including North Carolina, the continental colonies to the south, and the Bahama Islands. Under this new dispensation Franklin and Foxcroft, hitherto the deputy postmasters...