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
6611Cash Accounts, December 1767 (Washington Papers)
Cash Decr 5— To Do of Mr Jos. Thompson on Acct of Rent £ 6. 0. 0 7— To Do of Peter St Clair for weavg 9¾ yds 0. 9. 9 To Do of Captn Posey by Mrs Posey 2.19. 0 To Do won at Cards 5. 3. 6 Contra Decr 5— By my Brother John lent 25. 0. 0 By my Exps. at Snickers 0. 7. 6 6— By Ditto at Wests Ordy 0. 2. 0
6612From George Washington to John West, Jr., December 1767 (Washington Papers)
Having Perusd the Contents of Mr Bernards Letter Inclosd, I am of Opinion that, if the scope of it is to draw an answer from us (as Executors of Colo. Colvills Will) signifying (that as we are not in Cash, and probably shall be sometime without a sufficiency to discharge the several Legacies he has left) that we will, so soon as we can with propriety, pay Mrs Bernards Fortune to him or his...
6613From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 1 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Bibliotheque Municipale de Nantes I duly received your Favours of Augt. 22. and Sept. 20. and Oct. 8. and, within these few Days one of Feb. 14. recommending Mr. Morgan Edwards and his Affair of the Rhodeisland College, which I shall endeavour to promote deeming the Institution one of the most catholic and generous of the kind. I believe I before acknowledg’d the Receipt of the Bills you...
6614To Benjamin Franklin from Jane Mecom, 1 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrot to you Some time ago and Informed you of the Death of my Child and of the Helth of the Rest of my Famely. I have now a Twofold Benifit to Acknolidg and thank you for The Recipt of what you mention in yr [your] Last to me by Mr. Barrett. Mr. Winthrop come and Paid me five Giuenys and yr [your] Advancing so much for me when Capt. Freeman come I am not...
6615To George Washington from Capel and Osgood Hanbury, 10 December 1767 (Washington Papers)
We Wrote thee the 20 Octobr last ⅌ Capt. Johnson to which refer since then we have not reced any of thy favours—The Estates 8 Hhds Tobo ⅌ the Hanbury are not yet dispos’d of as the buyers do not come up to the price we think them worth, however hope that after Xmass the Market will be brisker —As the Bearer Capt. Esten will in all probability be an early Ship in the Country we flatter...
6616From Benjamin Franklin to John Ross, 12 December 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), p. 148. I received your kind letter of October 18. I had before seen with great pleasure your name in the papers as chosen for the...
6617From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Wharton, 12 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
Burned fragment of extract: New York State Library [ Burned ] hear of the Accident to the Boat On the [ burned ] being fully sensible of the Truth of What you [ burned ] concerning Indian Affairs And the Necessity of [ burned ] a Boundary, I shall urge this Point very [ burned ] On the Ministry. This extract, and one from BF ’s letter to Galloway of Dec. 1, 1767 (above, p. 332 n), were sent by...
6618From George Washington to Richard Starke, 14 December 1767 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 22d Ulto by Post did not reach my hands (being in Frederick County) till a few days ago, and knowing of no oppertunity of conveying an answer to you soon, otherwise than by Post, you will please to receive what follows by that channel, as my further Sentiments of the Subject you wrote upon. That I shoud be glad to make the place convenient to you for the sake of having it in...
6619American Longevity, [15 December 1767] (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The London Chronicle , Dec. 12–15, 1767. I have often heard it remarked, that our Colonies in North America were unhealthy and unfavourable to long life; and more particularly so upon their first settlement. In opposition to this groundless notion, I here send you two paragraphs taken from the Pensylvania Gazette of July 16, and the New-York Gazette of August 27, giving an account...
6620From Benjamin Franklin to Francis Hopkinson, 16 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Associates of the Late Rev. Dr. Bray I received yours of Nov. 6. with the Account of your safe Arrival, which gave me and your Friends here great Pleasure. I have sent your Letter to Mr. Morgann, and by some Discourse I have had with him I am inclin’d to think you will find it no great Difficulty to agree for the Office when you see him on the Spot; and he is now preparing for the...
6621Mississippi Land Company Minutes of Meeting, 16 December 1767 (Washington Papers)
At a General Meeting of the Mississippi Company at Stafford Court House in Virginia December 16th 1767. Present Richard Parker Francis Thornton Richard Henry Lee William Brent William Fitzhugh John Augustine Washington Francis Lightfoot Lee William Fitzhugh Junr Thomas Ludwell Lee William Beale Junr George Washington William Lee Richard Parker Esqr chosen President this meeting It is resolved...
6622From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 19 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; extract reprinted from William Temple Franklin, ed., Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. F.R.S. &c ., I (quarto edit., London, 1818), 125–6 note. The paragraphs printed here form one of two documents William Temple Franklin printed at widely separated points in his edition of his grandfather’s writings, both of which he said were letters to William...
6623George Rome to ——, 22 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
I am now withdrawn to my little country villa, where, tho’ I am more retired from the busy world, yet I am still invelop’d with uneasy reflections for a turbulent, degenerate, ungrateful continent, and the opposition I have met with in my indefatigable endeavours to secure our property in this colony, but hitherto without success. The times are so corrupted and the conflict of parties so...
6624To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 22 December 1767 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 22 Dec. 1767. On 5 May 1768 GW wrote to them : “I have just time before I leave this place to acknowledge the receipt of your Letters of the 22d of Decr by Eston, and 1st of Feby by Captn Outram.”
6625From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 24 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote you largely by this Packet, but omitted mentioning two Things I want you to send me per first Ships, for two of my Friends here. One is, Miller’s German Newspapers for two or three Months back; and to be continued. The other a Lump of that Sort of Stone we make Steps and Cheeks of Cellar doors of, at Philadelphia. Your Care in these Particulars will...
6626From Benjamin Franklin to Isaac Hunt, 24 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
Transcript: Historical Society of Pennsylvania I received yours of Octo. 10 and perceive with concern that you are still persecuted as a heretic in politics. It is remarkable that the objection to you as a libeller should come from that person who is himself one huge, living, walking talking libel against all the worthy characters that come in his way. You ask me my advice on the occasion. The...
6627From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 24 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have received yours of Oct. 23. and condole with you most affectionately in the Affliction you must have suffered by the Loss of so valuable and so amiable a Child. The longer we live we are expos’d to more of these Strokes of Providence: but tho’ we consider them as such, and know it is our Duty to submit to the Divine Will, yet when it comes to our Turn...
6628To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 24 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society As no Packet has arrived here these two Months, nor any other Vessels lately from England, we have not had the Pleasure to hear from you since Sept. last. My last to you was per Capt. Eff. Lawrence by whom I told you the Issue of the Trial of the Office vers. Holt, was by the Auditors at New Haven, so far adjudged in Holt’s Favour, that he was to pay the...
6629From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 29 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; extract reprinted in part from The Pennsylvania Chronicle, And Universal Advertiser , March 7–14, 1768, and in part from William Temple Franklin, ed., Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. F.R.S. &c ., II , The Private Correspondence (quarto edition, London, 1817), 149–50. The paragraphs printed here form the second of two documents that William Temple...
6630To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Cumming, 30 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Thos. Cumming presents his best Respects to his worthy Friend Doctor Franklin, and begs Leave to introduce to his Notice the Bearer, who is canvassing for the Place of Library-Keeper to the Royal Society. The Doctor will be presented with a Book of that Gentleman’s, which if it has been already read by the Doctor, Cumming may save himself the Trouble of...