1Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 20 September 1759 (Washington Papers)
Balsam of sulfur was sulfur mixed in olive oil taken to relieve chest and abdominal complaints.
2The Interest of Great Britain Considered, [17 April 1760] (Franklin Papers)
...all silk; the southern parts, may produce olive oil, raisins, currans, indigo, and cochineal....
3Cash Accounts, June 1775 (Washington Papers)
This was a superior kind of olive oil.
4To Benjamin Franklin from Jan Ingenhousz, 5 December 1780 (Franklin Papers)
...all in a glased earthen vessel full of olive oil heated to some degrees under boiling, taking...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Mortimer, with an Invoice of Medicines for the Hospital at Fredericksburg, 28 December … (Jefferson Papers)
Olive Oil
6To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Millet, 20 January 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...double refined), capers, pickles, tarragon, olive oil, mocha coffee, pepper, rice, almonds,...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson, 11 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
...to that of six or eight candles. It requires olive oil, but it’s consumption is not great. The...
8May [1785] (Washington Papers)
...company “for the Purpose of raising and making Wine, [olive] Oil, agruminous Plants and Silk” (
9[Diary entry: 16 May 1785] (Washington Papers)
...company “for the Purpose of raising and making Wine, [olive] Oil, agruminous Plants and Silk” (
10From John Adams to John Jay, 5 November 1785 (Adams Papers)
...of Madeira, Lisbon and Port Wines, Fruits, Olive Oil Salt &c.— He asked why We...