1Card to the Public, 23 September 1742 (Franklin Papers)
to the Freeholders of Pennsylvania
2Treaty of Carlisle, 1 November 1753 (Franklin Papers)
The Magistrates, and several other Gentlemen and Freeholders of the County of Cumberland.
3Poor Richard Improved, 1754 (Franklin Papers)
In 1699 an Account was taken of the Freeholders in West-Jersey, by which it appear’d that...
4Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, 19 August 1755 (Franklin Papers)
...Purchase after Purchase, till the Number of Freeholders in the Province is reduced to a...
5Pennsylvania Assembly Committee: Report on Three Petitions, 14 November 1755 (Franklin Papers)
not Freeholders, many of them
6A Dialogue between X, Y, and Z, 18 December 1755 (Franklin Papers)
...however (considering that this Militia would consist chiefly of Freeholders) have varied a...
7Memorandum respecting the Militia, 7 May 1756 (Washington Papers)
...on the grounds that Lee “had treated the Freeholders of the said County, to engage their Votes...
8Pennsylvania Assembly: Remonstrance to William Denny, [26 January 1757] (Franklin Papers)
...Returns commonly made” and urged that three freeholders be chosen in each township to make...
9To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 6 June 1757 (Washington Papers)
..., by drafting other men who were not “freeholders or house-keepers qualified to vote at an...
10To Benjamin Franklin from Isaac Norris, 17 October 1757 (Franklin Papers)
...Purchases are now found to concern every Freeholder who enjoys his Lands under them the...