1To Benjamin Franklin from William Coats: Deed, 31 July 1741 (Franklin Papers)
...by the same north 38 degrees east, 24.6 perches to a post; thence by the same and Coats...perches
2Report of Viewers of a Road in the Northern Liberties, [April 1745] (Franklin Papers)
...Ball deceased North East One hundred and ten Perches thence on the same Land North Sixty one...
3Poor Richard Improved, 1749 (Franklin Papers)
...a field of ten acres, which contains 1600 square perches, will hold as many trees; for a...
4From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 25 October 1750 (Franklin Papers)
...Price of the Work to Labourers per Rod or Perch, and whatever may be of Use for our...
...’ai fait planter dans un jardin trois grosses perches de vingt-huit à vingt-neuf pieds...
6William Hays to Robert Hunter Morris and the Provincial Commissioners, 3 January 1756 (Franklin Papers)
...Bethlehem to winter there, and were within fifteen Perches of the Houses, and fired upon first...
7From Benjamin Franklin to ——, 25 January 1756 (Franklin Papers)
...the Pin which united the two Parts of the Perch, we had 10 Carriages with two Horses each,...
8[March 1759] (Adams Papers)
The Blackbirds were perched on the Trees round the Borders of the Pond,
9March 14. 1759. (Adams Papers)
The Blackbirds were perched on the Trees round the Borders of the Pond,
10[April 1760] (Washington Papers)
...2.38: He means 3 acres, 2 roods, 38 perches. A rood is 40 square rods or ¼ acre;... ...perch is...