1Journal of a Voyage, 1726 (Franklin Papers)
...the sailors stepped up aloft and let down a rope to us, which we with much struggling made...rope
2Extracts from the Gazette, 1730 (Franklin Papers)
...hanged himself on a Tree: But it seems the Rope broke in the Operation, and towards Morning he...
3A Witch Trial at Mount Holly, 22 October 1730 (Franklin Papers)
...a Barge or Flat, having for Security only a Rope about the Middle of each, which was held...
4Extracts from the Gazette, 1738 (Franklin Papers)
...hanged himself on the Stake of a Fence with a Rope he had been playing with in the Yard. He...
5Poor Richard, 1739 (Franklin Papers)
...Reason the Crabs will go sidelong, and the Rope-makers backward. The Belly will wag before,...
6Extracts from the Gazette, 1742 (Franklin Papers)
...thro’ the Fields backwards and forwards with Ropes between two Persons, and bending the Corn...
7From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 16 July 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...about Mountains (for Ideas will string themselves like Ropes of Onions) when I was once riding...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 29 April 1749 (Franklin Papers)
...the river, and supported in the air by the rope commonly used to hold by, in drawing the ferry...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Collinson, 25 April 1750 (Franklin Papers)
...known. Our Apricots and Peaches are sett Like ropes of Onions and the Face of plenty smiles...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 29 June 1751 (Franklin Papers)
...that could have conducted more freely than Tarred Ropes, or Masts of Turpintine Wood, I...