5731[Diary entry: 1 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
1st. Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole to the Road—at the Mill to the 3d. Stake—and finished the Orchard at Doeg Run. Wind at up No. Et. & very cloudy the whole day. At one O’clock it sat in to Raining which at 6 turnd to Snow. The April entries in this diary are missing from the diary at DLC . The entries of 1–8 April are taken from a facsimile in the Toner collection at DLC and those of 9–13 April...
5732[Diary entry: 2 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
2. Day warm & fine. Wind Northwardly in the Morning—Southwardly afterwards. Ground too wet to prepare for or Sow in Hemp.
5733[Diary entry: 3 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
3. Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole to the first Stake (beging. at the and next the woods)—at the Mill to The 4th. stake—and at Doeg Run (by the Lane) to 1st. stake beginng. at the great Mulberry. Clear & pleasant—but not warm—the Wind being Northwardly in the forenoon—calm in the Evening.
5734[Diary entry: 4 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
4. Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole to the 2d. stake, at the Mill to the 5th. & at Doeg Run to the 2. Hazy—Wind Southwardly & Rain. At 6 in the afternoon began to Rain. Ground full Wet for sowing, or Working before.
5735[Diary entry: 5 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
5. Constant Rain all Night, and till 10 O’clock this day (Wind hard at No. Et.) & cloudy afterwards. At 6 in the Evening sat into close Raining again. No Hemp sowd to day.
5736From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 6 April 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society As the Stamp Act is at length repeal’d, I am willing you should have a new Gown, which you may suppose I did not send sooner, as I knew you would not like to be finer than your Neighbours, unless in a Gown of your own Spinning. Had the Trade between the two Countries totally ceas’d, it was a Comfort to me to recollect that I had once been cloth’d from Head...
5737[Diary entry: 6 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
6. Wind at No. Et. & raining all day—Sunday.
5738[Diary entry: 7 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
7. Raining till 10 Oclock—very cloudy afterwards till Night when it began to Rain again. Wind at No. East. Ground exceeding wet.
5739[Diary entry: 8 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
8. Cloudy the first part of the day—wind westwardly. Ground very wet.
5740[Diary entry: 9 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
9. Clear, wind hard at Northwest. Sowed Hemp at the mill to the 6th. stake. None sowed elsewhere—ground too wet.
5741[April 1766] (Adams Papers)
At Plymouth. Court open and Business proceeding. This was the Inferior Court of Common Pleas. Went to Boston. The Superior Court adjourned again, for a fortnight. Hutchinson, Cushing and Oliver, present. What Insolence And Impudence, and Chickanery is this? Fleet of Yesterday, gives us, a Piece from Lon don Gaz ette Jany. 8th. signed Vindex Patriae. The sole Q uestion he says is, if the...
5742Fryday April 10th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
At Plymouth. Court open and Business proceeding. This was the Inferior Court of Common Pleas.
5743To Benjamin Franklin from Ezra Stiles, 10 April 1766 (Franklin Papers)
Letterbook copy: Yale University Library I should not so soon have troubled you with another Letter, before I had known your receipt of my former ones, but to oblige my Friend Capt. Fred Hamilton. Mr. Swift Attorney at Law in Bo[ston] by a Letter to Capt. Hamilton last Winter, informed him that a Gentleman in London had, in the Name and at the desire of the “Lady of the Earl of Peterborough...
5744[Diary entry: 10 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
10. Fine clear day till late in the afternoon when it cleared. Being little wind Sowed Hemp at the mill in the 7th. stake at Muddy hole to the 3d stake. At dog Run none sowed.
5745[Diary entry: 11 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
11. Cloudy, with light showers all day, wind briskly from the Southard. Sowed Hemp at the Mill to the 8th. stake—at Muddy hole to the 4th. & at Dog Run to the third. Sowed a little Flax by the Peach orchd. Ground very wet.
5746Petition to the House of Commons, [12–15 April 1766] (Franklin Papers)
Draft: Library of Congress At the request of members the House of Commons ordered to be read aloud on Friday, April 11, 1766, part of an act that provided for the transportation of felons from England to the American colonies. Thereupon the House granted leave to bring in a bill extending to Scotland the system of transporting felons to America. Within a few days Franklin had drawn up a...
5747From Benjamin Franklin to the Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence, 12 April 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : The Rosenbach Foundation I received your Letters of Jan. 13. and 20. and communicated them to Mr. Jackson. The Petition, praying a Repeal of the Act of Parliament prohibiting the Paper Money of the Colonies being a lawful Tender, was immediately presented according to your Directions, and referred to a Committee. We have for a long time been extreamly busy with our general American...
5748From Benjamin Franklin to [Joseph Galloway], 12 April 1766 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; extract printed in Pennsylvania Gazette , June 19, 1766 Our Friends here are in Pain, lest the Condescension of Parliament, in repealing the Stamp-Act, will encourage the Americans to farther Excesses; and our Enemies, who have predicted it, hope to see their Prophecies fulfilled, that they may disgrace the present Ministry; but I hope we shall behave prudently, and disappoint...
5749[Diary entry: 12 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
12. Sowed Hemp at the Mill—none elsewhere ground being wet. Clear wind Northwardly.
5750To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Priestley, 13 April 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I this day received your favour of the 10th instant, and the day before yesterday another letter, with several parcels of books, containing all that are mentioned in your letters. At the same time I received a parcel from Dr. Watson, containing, among others, the same history of electricity which you have sent me. I shall immediately apply myself to the...
5751[Diary entry: 13 April 1766] (Washington Papers)
13. Sunday—clear & warm—wind South. On this day GW set out for the lower Tidewater, stopping at Fredericksburg to pick up Fielding Lewis. After stopping at Eltham, they crossed the James River and visited the Dismal Swamp. They then returned to spend a week at Eltham and in Williamsburg, where GW settled some accounts, including the purchase of two indentured servants. GW was back at Mount...
5752To Benjamin Franklin from George Read, 14 April 1766 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from William T. Read, Life and Correspondence of George Read (Philadelphia, 1870), p. 23. From your known goodness, and the knowledge you have of me and my family, I have presumed to beg the favor of you to apply to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury on my behalf, for the appointment of Collector of the Port of New Castle, made vacant by the death of Mr. William...
5753Tuesday April 15th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Went to Boston. The Superior Court adjourned again, for a fortnight. Hutchinson, Cushing and Oliver, present. What Insolence And Impudence, and Chickanery is this? Fleet of Yesterday, gives us, a Piece from Lon don Gaz ette Jany. 8th. signed Vindex Patriae. The sole Q uestion he says is, if the Americans are represented in Parliament? Colonists by Charters shall have same Priviledges, as if...
5754From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Ronayne, 20 April 1766 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from William Temple Franklin, ed., Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. F.R.S. &c. (Quarto edition, London, 1817–18), iii, 364–6. I received your very obliging and ingenious letter by Captain Kearney. Your observations on the Electricity of Fogs, and of the air in Ireland, and of the several circumstances attending a thunder-storm, are very...
5755To George Washington from James Gildart, 22 April 1766 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you of the 28th Novr ⅌ the Totness Capt. Barwich of whoes Arrivall In York have lately been advised that I hope you have received mine In Answer to your esteemed favour of the 20th Sept. duplicate of wc. have now before me. I gave you the best Information relating to Hemp from America I then could. Since have had a few Tons from Ra⟨ppa⟩hanock wch I sold At 27 ⅌ Ton besides the bounty...
5756To John Jay from Benjamin Kissam, 25 April 1766 (Jay Papers)
I have been strongly sollicited to take a Jaunt with Mr. Inglis to Philadelphia, and he proposes to set offon Tuesday next. I have consented to go provided my horse is well, and News of the Repeal of the Stamp Act should not arrive in the mean Time. Will You then be good enough to send my Horse down by a careful hand, if he is fit to go the Journey; and as upon the Repeal of the Stamp Act, we...
5757Saturday April 26th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
The last Thurdsdays Paper is full. The Resolves of the House of Commons, are the most interesting. The Bill which is to be brought in upon the first Resolve, and the Sixth has excited my Curiosity and Apprehensions the most. The Ist. Resolve is that K., Lds. and Commons have an undoubted Right to make Laws for the Colonies in all Cases, whatever.—I am solicitous to know whether they will lay a...
5758To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Wharton, 26 April 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I had the pleasure of writing thee, on the 25th. Ulto, since when We have not had the satisfaction of receiving any of thy Favours. Various have been the Reports spread through the Continent, respecting the Repeal of the Stamp-Act; and as often as they arrived sometimes in favour and other times against Us, we were acted upon, by our Fears, and different...
5759Deed from Marmaduke Norfleet, 26 April 1766 (Washington Papers)
26 April 1766 “This Indenture, made the twenty Sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & Sixty Six Between Marmaduke Norflet of the County of Perquimans of the one Part, And George Washington & Feilding Lewis of the Colony of Virginia Gent. of the other Part Witnesseth, That for & in Consideration of the Sum of One thousand two hundred Pounds Current money of...
5760To John Jay from Benjamin Kissam, 26 April 1766 (Jay Papers)
We were last Night strangely deluded with a mistaken account of the Repeal of the Stamp Act; and all the Bells have been ringing since Break of Day—Upon Enquiry We find that the Intelligence amounts to no more than that the Bill had passed the House of Commons on the 28 of Feb y and so was to be sent up to the Lords on the 3 d . March. There is indeed a Letter dated at Falmouth on the 5 th ....