1To Benjamin Franklin from Jane Mecom, [23 October 1767] (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; extract reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., The Works of Benjamin Franklin , VII (Boston, 1838), 515 n. Sorrows roll upon me like the waves of the sea. I am hardly allowed time to fetch my breath. I am broken with breach upon breach, and I have now, in the first flow of my grief, been almost ready to say, “What have I more?” But God forbid, that I should indulge that thought,...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Jane Mecom, 1 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrot to you Some time ago and Informed you of the Death of my Child and of the Helth of the Rest of my Famely. I have now a Twofold Benifit to Acknolidg and thank you for The Recipt of what you mention in yr [your] Last to me by Mr. Barrett. Mr. Winthrop come and Paid me five Giuenys and yr [your] Advancing so much for me when Capt. Freeman come I am not...