I. MS not found; reprinted from Pennsylvania History , VI (1939), 15; II. ADS : Yale University Library The minutes of the Society of Arts (see above, VI , 186–9 n) for the meeting of Sept. 7, 1757, note that Franklin attended and read the extract of a letter from John Hughes printed as No. I below; that Franklin paid in the donation; and that the Society voted their thanks to Hughes for his...
2To Benjamin Franklin from John Hughes, 1 January 1759 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Public Record Office, London As I am Just now Inform’d that a vessel is going from New York to London I Embrace the Opertunity of Letting You know Your friends are Generally in health Especially Mrs. Franklin and Family whom I Continue to visit frequently in Your Absence and if Occation Required shou’d be fond of an Oppertunity to Serve You or Yours, but Mrs. Franklin’s Good Oeconomy...
3To Benjamin Franklin from John Hughes, 29 November 1762 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The lands which Hughes proposed to buy in this letter had a tangled history. On Jan. 26, 1705, Col. Thomas Byerly purchased from Robert Squibb, Jr., about 21,000 acres in present-day Hunterdon and Warren counties in western New Jersey and something less than 20,000 acres in other parts of the province. By his will, dated May 26, 1725, Byerly “conveyed his...
4To Benjamin Franklin from John Hughes, 8–17 September 1765 (Franklin Papers)
Extracts: Public Record Office; also printed in The Pennsylvania Journal , September 4, 1766, Supplement. Prospective stamp distributors came under attack in several colonies during August 1765, and by the beginning of September several had already resigned; see above, pp. 256–7. The turn of John Hughes, distributor for Pennsylvania and the Three Lower Counties, came a little later than some...
5To Thomas Jefferson from John Hughes, 10 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Idea of a Peace in Europe seems to be here generally believed, as certain, and has been a ground of some Debates in our National Councill—I hope that you will not be off your Guard—by this delusive Expectation—As a Man of Extensive Information, you can be no Stranger to the Views of the fell Agitators concerned in the present bloody Drama— I do not doubt your Integrity, or Capacity—As a...
6To Thomas Jefferson from John Hughes, 5 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you formerly my Opinion, of there being a propriety, of attending to ameliorate, the condition of prisoners of War, & of the certainty of a War with England, & the propriety of declairing the War in particular against its Goverment, and treating English prisoners of War, as was done, at the commencement of the Revolution, allowing the Sailors their Wages, and Ventures, out of the Prise...