From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Managers of the Philadelphia Silk Filature, 6 January 1773: résumé
To a Committee of the Managers of the Philadelphia Silk Filature
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress
<London, January 6, 1773. Has paid Mr. Wheeler twenty guineas, pursuant to the instructions of November 16, and encloses his receipt.5>
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
5. Richard Wheeler had been the agent for Evans and James in their land purchase the year before; see above, XIX, 97–9, 168–9, 413, 421.