To Benjamin Franklin from Frederick Shinkle: Bill and Receipt, 13 December 1763

From Frederick Shinkle: Bill and Receipt

ADS: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Mr. Benjamin Franklin Esqr.

To Frederick Shinkle6

1762
January 8	To 1 pr. Breeches for Dunlaps7 Negroe	£1.	7.	–
1763
May. 13	To 1 pr. Breeches for Negroe	1.	7.	–
	To Washing and altering 2 pr. Breeches	–	7.	6
	To 1 [illegible] Wool	–	2.	–
	To 2 pr. Gloves at 7s. 6d.	–	15.	–
		£3.	18.	6

Dec. 13. 1763 Recd the within in full of all Accounts per me8

Frederick Shinkle

Endorsed: F. Shinkle old Acct

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

6. Shinkle seems to have been a Philadelphia tailor or leatherworker who specialized in breeches and gloves for Negroes. Several similar bills of later dates survive.

7. Probably William Dunlap (see above, V, 199 n; VII, 158), postmaster at Philadelphia.

8. This much of the receipt, and the endorsement, are in BF’s hand.

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Title: To Benjamin Franklin from Frederick Shinkle: Bill and Receipt, 13 December 1763
Author: Shinkle, Frederick
Recipient: Franklin, Benjamin
Date: 13 December 1763

Reference

Cite as: “To Benjamin Franklin from Frederick Shinkle: Bill and Receipt, 13 December 1763,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-10-02-0211. [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, p. 392.]