To Benjamin Franklin from James Elphinston: Bill for William Temple Franklin’s Education, 4 July 1769
From James Elphinston: Bill for William Temple Franklin’s Education.9
ADS: American Philosophical Society
[July 4. 1769]
Master William Temple
July 4. 1769
| One half year’s board and Education | 15. | .. | .. |
| One half year’s dancing | 2. | 2. | |
| Education, a poem, bound | 3. | 6 | |
| Copybooks, paper, pens and ink &c | 6. | 6 | |
| Mending of cloaths | 5. | 6 | |
| Haircutting, twice | 2. | ||
| Money | 7. | 6 | |
| An Apothecary’s bill | 1. | 10. | . |
| Extra’s during ilness | 1. | 1. | |
| Seat in Church | 6 | ||
| Servants | 5 | ||
| £21. | 9. | . |
Received the above in full
James Elphinston
[In another hand]: Supposed to be paid in BF’s Absence by Mrs. Stevenson1
Endorsed: Master William Temple / July 4. 1769 / No 19 Elphinston’s Bill Schooling for Mastr Temple pd July 4 1769
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
9. For young Temple’s schooling under James Elphinston, William Strahan’s brother-in-law, see above, XIII, 443; for further information about the schoolmaster see R. C. Dallas, “Biographical Memoir of James Elphinston, Esq.,” Gent. Mag., LXXIX (1809), 1057–63.
1. BF’s Journal contains two payments to Elphinston, one on Jan. 30, 1769, of £20 11s. and the other on Jan. 23, 1770, of £19 13s.