41To Benjamin Franklin from William Franklin, 13 November 1766 (Franklin Papers)
LS (incomplete): American Philosophical Society Mr. Sherwood was not removed for any offence he had given, but by the Management of the East Jersey Proprietors in the Council, who have long wanted to have the Agent they employ appointed Provincial Agent. They took Advantage of Sherwood’s Letters about the Stamp Act, which were very short and trivial, and produced some of Mr. Wilmot’s which...
42To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 11 November 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Yours of Sept. 1. by Way of Philadelphia, I duly received, which is all I have been favoured with a great While: I congratulate you on your safe Return from Germany. I will do what is possible with B Mecom. With Respect to a new Supply of Types, I should either have been more explicit at first, or wrote again about them: But amidst the Manifold Distresses,...
43To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Wharton, 11 November 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society My last was on the 24th. Ult. since which I received thy kind Favour of the 13th. Sep. for which I thank thee. And rejoice to find the Tour thou took into Germany, proved servicable to thee; and restored the Health of One, whom many look upon, as the great Instrument in saving both our Mother-Country and this Continent from Ruin. The kind sentiments, thou...
44From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, [8 November 1766] (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from extract in [Jared Sparks, ed.,] A Collection of the Familiar Letters and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Boston, 1833), pp. 279–80. Mr. Jackson is now come to town. The ministry have asked his opinion and advice on your plan of a colony in the Ilinois, and he has just sent me to peruse his answer in writing, in which he warmly recommends it, and enforces...
45From Benjamin Franklin to Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence, [8 November 1766] (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; abstract printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania, Met at Philadelphia [October 14, 1766] (Philadelphia, 1767), p. 17. Mr. Speaker laid before the House a Letter received from Benjamin Franklin, Esq; in London, dated November the 8th, 1766, acquainting the Committee of Correspondence, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had...
46From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 8 November 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : William L. Clements Library I received your kind Letter of Sept. the 22d. and from another Friend a Copy of that lying Essay in which I am represented as the Author of the Stamp Act, and you as concern’d in it. The Answer you mention is not yet come to hand. Your Consolation, my Friend, and mine, under these Abuses, must be, that we do not deserve them . But what can console the Writers...
47To Benjamin Franklin from Jane Mecom, 8 November 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society You wonce tould me my Dear Brother that as our Numbers of Bretheres and Sisters Lessened the Affections of those of us that Remain Should Increes to Each other. You and I only are now Left, my Affection for you has all ways been So grate I see no Room for Increec, and you have Manifested yours to mee in such Large measure that I have no Reason to suspect...
48To Benjamin Franklin from [Joseph] Johnson, 4 November 1766 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society J. Johnson’s compliments to Dr. Francklin and sends those MSS for his inspection by order of Dr. Priestley who will esteem himself much oblig’d to the Dr. for looking over them as soon as possible. Addressed: To Dr. Francklin Joseph Johnson (1738–1809), bookseller and printer and in his later years deemed “the father of the book trade,” was one of the...
49To Benjamin Franklin from Francois Willem de Monchy, 4 November 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society With no small pleasure did I recive your kind letter of the 23 Oct. where for I am much oblig’d to you. I confess, that the care you have taken of my friends commission is very great, and that I do’nt know any think to recompence it. Being come home last week from England, I have spoken with my friend and shew’d him your letter, who like wise return’d his...
50Remarks on the Plan for Regulating the Indian Trade, [September 1766-October 1766] (Franklin Papers)
Draft: Library of Congress During June 1764 the Board of Trade had spent considerable time and effort preparing a “Plan for the Future Management of Indian Affairs,” and on June 15 it ordered that copies be sent for comment to the superintendents of Indian affairs and the royal governors on the North American continent. On July 10 drafts of the Board’s explanatory letters to these officials...