8971[1770] (Adams Papers)
The Year 1770 was memorable enough, in these little Annals of my Pilgrimage. The Evening of the fifth of March, I spent at Mr. Henderson Inches’s House at the South End of Boston, in Company with a Clubb, with whom I had been associated for several Years. About nine O Clock We were allarmed with the ringing of Bells, and supposing it to be the Signal of fire, We snatched our Hats and Cloaks,...
8972Note on Marginalia in Another Letter, an Anonymous Pamphlet, [1770?] (Franklin Papers)
MS notations appear on pp. 139–40 of a copy in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania of Another Letter to Mr. Almon, in Matter of Libel (London, 1770). The author is discussing the American claim that Parliament has no jurisdiction over the colonial assemblies because they are constitutionally coequal with it. Franklin’s comments were largely obliterated when the copy was cropped in...
8973Marginalia in An Inquiry, an Anonymous Pamphlet, [1770] (Franklin Papers)
MS notations in the margins of a copy in the New York Public Library of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Present Disputes between the British Colonies in America and Their Mother-Country; and Their Reciprocal Claims and Just Rights Impartially Examined, and Fairly Stated (London, 1769). This anonymous and, today, very rare pamphlet was once tentatively ascribed to Franklin. Even if...
8974Marginalia in [Josiah Tucker], A Letter from a Merchant, [1770?] (Franklin Papers)
MS notations in the margins of a copy in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania of [Josiah Tucker], A Letter from a Merchant in London to His Nephew in North America (London, 1766). The Rev. Josiah Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, was one of the more prolific pamphleteers of his time, and one of the few whose work still commands attention. He was an economist as well as a theologian, and his...
8975Marginalia in [Matthew Wheelock], Reflections Moral and Political, [1770?] (Franklin Papers)
MS notations in a copy in the Library of Congress of [Matthew Wheelock], Reflections Moral and Political on Great Britain and Her Colonies (London, 1770). This is the true political Idea, that every Writer on these Subjects should have in View. Most of them think only of the good of a Part , Britain. The writer lives in the country, and has not kept up with the pamphlet controversy on the...
8976Memorandum List of Quitrents, 1770 (Washington Papers)
1770 . “A List of Lands belonging to Geo: Washington in the Northern Neck—on wch Quitrents became due Michaelmas—1770.” AD , DLC:GW . What follows is identical with what was printed in Memorandum: List of Quitrents, 1769, except that GW records 200 acres bought from John Posey at Mount Vernon in Fairfax County, changing the total acreage in Fairfax County to 5,518, the overall total to 12,463,...
8977Crops Made on the Custis Plantations by Joseph Valentine, 1760–70, 1770 (Washington Papers)
Editorial Note The table prepared by GW is one of three in the Custis Papers ( ViHi ) that GW constructed to present data relating to crop production on the Custis plantations for the eleven years from 1760 through 1770. In a second table, not printed here, to which GW gives virtually the same heading, GW breaks down these figures by tabulating for each year the number of hogsheads and the...
8978Memorandum Books, 1770 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 3. Inclosed writs in Harrison v. Bernard and Howell v. Netherland to Carter H. Harrison. 5. Committed my opinion in Dr. Campbell’s case to writing. 21. Donaghe v. Leeper. Delivd. Summses. to pl. Waterson’s and Johnston’s cases. Recd. by Hugh Donaghe 308 English half crowns = £48–2–6, 4 half Joes = £9, 1 Caroline and Portugal peice of gold £3–5–7 ½, two doubloons = £8–12 and two pistoles =...
8979To Benjamin Franklin from James Gambier, [before 20 July? 1770] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Capt. Gambiers Compliments to Dr. Franklyn, and calld on him to have askd the favor of his Sentiments relative to a Man that Comm[issione?]r Robinson mentiond to Mr. Gambier as a proper person to recomend to take lease of a light House. For the naval career of James Gambier (1723–89) see DNB . The note is said to be c . 1784 and in French in I. Minis Hays,...
8980[January 1770] (Adams Papers)
At my Office all Day. Last Evening at Dr. Peckers with the Clubb.—Otis is in Confusion yet. He looses himself. He rambles and wanders like a Ship without an Helm. Attempted to tell a Story which took up almost all the Evening. The Story may at any Time be told in 3 minutes with all the Graces it is capable of, but he took an Hour. I fear he is not in his perfect Mind. The Nervous, Concise, and...
8981[Draft of a Newspaper Communication, January? 1770.] (Adams Papers)
“If I would but go to Hell for an eternal Moment or so, I might be knighted.” My dear Children— You may well imagine, that no Lapse of Time, nor any Change whatever can render me totally inattentive or indifferent to your Interests. They are always near my Heart. I am as anxious as ever for your Welfare and as studious to avert the most distant Calamity that threatens or can befall you. Your...
8982Governor Winthrop to the Inhabitants of New England, January 1770 (Adams Papers)
Boston, January? 1770. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 1:349 . Apparently the fragment of an intended newspaper contribution; for JA ’s earlier use of this pseudonym, see Replies to Philanthrop, ante 9 Dec. 1766 –16 Feb. 1767 , above. Printed ( JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and...
8983[January 1770] (Washington Papers)
Jany. 1. At home all day alone. 2. At home all day. Mr. Peake dined here. 3. At home all day alone. 4. Went a hunting with Jno. Custis & Lund Washington. Started a Deer & then a Fox but got neither. 5. Rid to Muddy hole & Doeg Run. Carrd. the Dogs with me but found nothing. Mr. Warnr. Washington & Mr. Thruston came in the Evening. 6. The two Colo. Fairfaxs and Mrs. Fairfax dind here as did Mr....
8984Acct. of the Weather in January [1770] (Washington Papers)
Jany. 1st. Constant Rain the whole day with high & boisterous Wind from the No. Et. 2. Clear and Cold, wind high from the No. West. River froze over. 3. Wind in the same Quarter & very fresh remarkably cold & frosty. 4. But very little Wind, & that Southwardly. Day clear & more moderate but the ground very little thawed. 5. Clear & pleasant. Wind Southwardly—the Ground notwithstanding close...
8985Cash Accounts, January 1770 (Washington Papers)
Cash Jany 6— To Ditto [cash] of Mr H. Manley £ 4. 5.0 10— To Cash recd for 2 Barrls White Fish 3. 0.0 13— To Ditto recd on Acct of Subn to the V. Justice 0.15.0 20— To Ditto recd on acct of Do 0. 7.6 Contra For 1770 By Thomas Bishop Cash Lent 4. 0.0 Jany 7— By the Revd Mr [Charles Mynn] Thruston for his share of Land on the Ohio undr the Kings Procln 10. 0.0
8986[Diary entry: 1 January 1770] (Washington Papers)
Jany. 1. At home all day alone.
8987[Diary entry: 1 January 1770] (Washington Papers)
Jany. 1st. Constant Rain the whole day with high & boisterous Wind from the No. Et.
8988New Fables, 2 January 1770 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Public Advertiser , January 2, 1770 The first ascription of these fables to Franklin was by Verner Crane, and his evidence is conclusive. When the second and third fables were composed, as distinct from published, is impossible to say; the genesis of the first goes back almost two years, although in the intervening period it changed considerably. NEW FABLES , humbly inscribed to...
8989[Diary entry: 2 January 1770] (Washington Papers)
2. At home all day. Mr. Peake dined here.
8990[Diary entry: 2 January 1770] (Washington Papers)
2. Clear and Cold, wind high from the No. West. River froze over.
8991Suffolk County Bar Book, 3 January 1770 – 26 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
Boston,3 January 1770 – 26 July 1774. MS book containing 138 numbered pages ( MHi ). Printed: MHS, Procs. Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections and Proceedings. , 1st ser., 19 (1881–1882): 147–179. The first 16 pages (of which p. 13–14 are blank) contain entries in JA ’s hand for meetings of the Suffolk co. bar, 1770–1774. The remaining pages, carrying entries in various other hands,...
8992[Diary entry: 3 January 1770] (Washington Papers)
3. At home all day alone.
8993[Diary entry: 3 January 1770] (Washington Papers)
3. Wind in the same Quarter & very fresh remarkably cold & frosty.
8994Abigail and John Adams to Isaac Smith Jr., 4 January 1770 (Adams Papers)
I Congratulate you upon the fine weather we have had since your absence; if it has been as favourable to you, as it has been here, you will long Ere this reaches you be safely arrived in Carolina. When you left us, you did not tell me, nor did I know till a few days agone, that you designd a visit to our (cruel) Mother Country, shall I say. I highly approve your design. Now is the best Season...
8995The Colonist’s Advocate: I, 4 January 1770 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Verner W. Crane, Benjamin Franklin’s Letters to the Press, 1758–1775 (Chapel Hill, [1950]), pp. 167–70. This essay, printed in the Public Advertiser on Jan. 4, 1770, was the first in a series of eleven that ran in that newspaper for the next two months. The series was designed to muster support for the total repeal of the Townshend Acts, and ended when the last hope of such...
8996Petition to the Treasury from Franklin and Others for a Grant of Land, 4 January 1770 (Franklin Papers)
AD (copy): Library of Congress The formation of the Grand Ohio Company in the early summer of 1769 had begun a flurry of activity among its principal promoters. The original request to the Privy Council for a grant of 2,400,000 acres, to be carved out of the territory ceded to the crown by the Indians in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, had been referred to the Board of Trade. After a five-month...
8997To Benjamin Franklin from John Ewing, 4 January 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Our Philosophical Society have at Length ordered me to draw out an Account of our Observations of the Transits of Venus and Mercury to be transmitted to you as our President thro’ whose Hands we think they may most conveniently be communicated to the learned Societies of Europe to whom you may apprehend they will be agreable. The Reason of their not coming...
8998To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 4 January 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I am yet here about the Jersey Laws: I sent up to New York 8 Days ago, a Letter for you with the first of the inclosed Bill of Exchange for £200, Wats and Mc Evers on Harley and Drummond which I had of Mr. Colden: but the Weather has been so extreme severe, that I have not learnt whether it could be sent by a Merchantship, or by this Packet; but lest that...
8999[Diary entry: 4 January 1770] (Washington Papers)
4. Went a hunting with Jno. Custis & Lund Washington. Started a Deer & then a Fox but got neither.
9000[Diary entry: 4 January 1770] (Washington Papers)
4. But very little Wind, & that Southwardly. Day clear & more moderate but the ground very little thawed.