1To Benjamin Franklin from George Croghan, 27 January 1767 (Franklin Papers)
LS : William L. Clements Library; extract: Public Record Office By the last packet from hence, I did myself the Honour of writing to you and of inclosing you, a Copy of my Report to his Excellency General Gage, in respect to the Trade, Situation &c. of the Illinois Country. Since which, I have strong Reasons to suspect, That he has imbibed unfavourable and very unjust Sentiments, relative to...
2List 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,...
3To Benjamin Franklin from George Croghan, 2 October 1767 (Franklin Papers)
LS : William L. Clements Library; LS : American Philosophical Society; draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania I was favoured with your Letter of the 18th April and I return you my sincere thanks, for the Notice you are pleased to take of my Publick Transactions; And shall think myself happy if my Conduct meets with the approbation of the Kings Ministers. I have been about three Months this...