1List of Fossils Sent by George Croghan to the Earl of Shelburne and Benjamin Franklin, 7 February 1767 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions , LVII. Part i. For the Year 1767 (London, 1768), 467. The earliest fully authenticated discovery of fossil vertebrates by a white man in what is now the United States was made in 1739 by Charles Le Moyne, Baron de Longueuil, near the Ohio River at a point an unknown distance above the falls that mark the site of the present Louisville,...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Wharton, 7 February 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society This opportunity presenting via Falmouth —I embrace it to inform thee, that thy Family are well; and that, thy Friends have frequent Occasion to make mention of thee with great pleasure. We now hourly look for the December-Packet, by which Vessel We do expect to hear something much to our Satisfaction; relative to the Affairs of this Province. The...
3[Diary entry: 7 February 1767] (Washington Papers)
7. Frozen Morng., brisk & cold Wind from the Southward. Clear till the Afternoon then cloudy. In the Evening clear again.