Benjamin Franklin Papers

The Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital to Franklin, David Barclay, and John Fothergill, 4 January 1773: résumé

The Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital to
Franklin, David Barclay, and John Fothergill

Minutebook copy: Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia

<January 4, 1773: In accordance with the letter of Jan. 1 from their committee, they have drawn on the recipients for £700 sterling in four bills of exchange in favor of John Clark, three for £200 each and one for £100.2>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. The Board was continuing its earlier policy of investing in mortgages; Clark had obtained one for £1,137 10s., Pennsylvania currency, on his plantation in Bucks County. The bills of exchange were at 62½%. Pa. Hospital minutebook, Jan. 4, 1773.

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    Title
    The Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital to Franklin, David Barclay, and John Fothergill, 4 January 1773: résumé
    Author
    Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital
    Recipients
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Barclay, David Junior
    Fothergill, John
    Date
    4 January 1773

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    “The Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital to Franklin, David Barclay, and John Fothergill, 4 January 1773: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-20-02-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 20, January 1 through December 31, 1773, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976, pp. 3–4.]