To Benjamin Franklin from David Hall, 10 May 1762

From David Hall

Letterbook copy: American Philosophical Society

Philada. May 10. 1762.

Sir,

Inclosed you have the second Copy of the above mentioned Bill,8 which I hope will come safe to your Hands; and am Yours, &c.

D. Hall

Mr. Franklin

Copy sent by the Patty, Captain Widdet from this Port to Bristol,9 in which was inclosed the second Copy of the above Bill.

Third Copy of Do. sent by the Grace, Captain Kerr, to Bristol, Via New-York.1.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8. See above, p. 73.

9. Pa. Gaz., May 20, 1762, reported the clearance of the Patty, Capt. J. Widdet; London Chron., July 3–6, 1762, reported its arrival at Bristol.

1. N.-Y. Mercury, May 17, 1762, reported the clearance of the New Grace, Capt. Alexander Kerr

Cite as: “To Benjamin Franklin from David Hall, 10 May 1762,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-10-02-0042. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 10, January 1, 1762, through December 31, 1763, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1959, pp. 79–80.]