1To Benjamin Franklin from Miss Martin, 20 January 1772: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society <General Post Office, January 20, 1772; a note in the third person. Asks Franklin to accept a copy of an Irish almanac which she has received that day. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson join her in compliments.> She has not appeared before, and no other correspondence of hers with BF is extant. We have discovered little about her except that she knew him reasonably well....
2[Diary entry: 20 January 1772] (Washington Papers)
20. After Breakfast the Majr. went away for Court and Messrs. Lawe. & Jno. Washington with Mrs. Polly Washington came here. Polly Washington is probably Miss Mary Townshend Washington (see main entry for 10 April 1770 ).
3[Diary entry: 20 January 1772] (Washington Papers)
20. No frost, but Cloudy all the forenoon with the wind fresh & Cold from the No. West.
4To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 20 January 1772 (Washington Papers)
I have just time to inform You by Mr Henderson that I sent up to Mr Smith and acquainted him that I had sold the Tract on little River provided he had not done so; and that he informed me that he had not, having been with some to look at the Land but as they had no Money he would not agree with them; so that you may depend upon having it if you don’t dislike it when you come to see it. With my...