6601To Benjamin Franklin from Cadwalader Evans, 20 November 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your very acceptable letter of Augst 5th. , and also Doctor Baker’s ingenuous investigation of the cause of the Devonshire colic; for which he deserves the thanks of that County in particular, and of all the world, where Wine, and Cyder, are drank. Gentlemen of the faculty, too often begin where they shou’d end; and instead of writing from...
6602[Diary entry: 20 November 1767] (Washington Papers)
Nov. 20. Vestry in Truro Parish. This entry is from Fitzpatrick, Diaries John C. Fitzpatrick, ed. The Diaries of George Washington, 1748–1799 . 4 vols. Boston and New York, 1925. , 1:240; the manuscript containing the entry has been lost since Fitzpatrick used it. At the vestry meeting it was resolved to replace the old frame Pohick Church in Mason’s Neck. Because the church was so near the...
6603To George Washington from Richard Starke, 22 November 1767 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Richard Starke, 22 Nov. 1767. On 14 Dec. GW wrote to Starke : “Your letter of the 22d Ulto by Post did not reach my hands . . . till a few days ago.”
6604To Benjamin Franklin from the Earl of Morton, 23 November 1767 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Lord Morton’s Compliments to Dr. Franklin, desires the favor of his Company to Dinner on saturday next the 28th Inst.; and that he would be so good as to come about 12 o’Clock, that there may be time for Auditing the Accounts of the Society before dinner. Addressed: To / Dr. Franklin / Craven Street / Strand. This audit may have been connected with the...
6605“F.B.”: On Smuggling, [24 November 1767] (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The London Chronicle , November 21–24, 1767; draft (incomplete): American Philosophical Society; transcript: American Philosophical Society This is Franklin’s first major statement on smuggling, although he had occasionally discussed the practice in his earlier correspondence. We do not know precisely when he wrote this paper, but we do know where he wrote it—at the country house of...
6606To Benjamin Franklin from Lachlin MacLeane, 24 November 1767 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: American Philosophical Society Mr. Macleane presents his Compliments to Dr. Franklin, and sends him a Paragraph of a Letter from Sir Wm. Johnson relative to the Boundary Line behind Pensylvania. Mr. Macleane will do Himself the Pleasure of waiting on the Doctor some Day this Week. [ On the same page: ] Extract of a Letter from Sir Wm. Johnson to the Earl of Shelburne, dated Johnson Hall...
6607To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 24 November 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society No Packet having arrived here lately, that of August from England being the last, and this Opportunity being near I must scribble a few Lines to you. I sent you, per Capt. Miller, a Power to get any Wages that may be due to me. My last to you was per the Duke Packet, immediately after my Return from New-Haven: since which Mr. Ingersol has wrote Mr. Foxcroft...
6608From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 25 November 1767 (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, II , printed with separate title as The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. F.R.S. &c . (London, 1817), pp. 144–6; also [William Duane, ed.,] The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin , VI (Philadelphia, 1817), 255–7; MS extracts:...
6609From Benjamin Franklin to John Canton, 27 November 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : The Royal Society After the Society was gone, my Lord Moreton said, (when I offer’d him the Paper) that it ought to have been deliver’d before and read to the Society: he however desir’d me to produce it to the Council. There the Reading of it was oppos’d as not being referr’d to them by the Society. But this was at last got over by Dr. Moreton’s proposing that the giving a Medal to Dr....
6610Adams’ Minutes of the Winslow Trial: Barnstable Inferior Court, Barnstable, December 1767 (Adams Papers)
Hovey. 239. Page. Nusances in Rivers. Natural, usual or common Passage. Wm. Robbins. Knows the Brook. Saw Clark make a Ware with sticks and stones and Boards. Saw James Clark cat c h Fish. Thos. Snow. Lt. Freeman. No Water in the guzzell when Winslow Gates are down in Herring Time. Tupper. Clark. In