1Miscellaneous Business Memoranda, 1731 (Franklin Papers)
...1757 show brass casters for a chair; a shovel, tongs, and coal for Franklin’s fire;...
2On Protection of Towns from Fire, 4 February 1735 (Franklin Papers)
...living Brands-ends, or Coals in a full Shovel, to be carried out of one Room into...
3An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Places, [15 November 1744] (Franklin Papers)
...cold and damp. In such Case put first a few Shovels of hot Coals in the Fire-Place, then lift...
4Proposal to the Associators, [21 March 1748] (Franklin Papers)
That a Number of Spades, Pickaxes, Shovels, &c. be provided for the City Regiment, to...
5To George Washington from John Defever, 18 September 1755 (Washington Papers)
shovels
6To Benjamin Franklin from Elizabeth Hubbart, 16 February 1756 (Franklin Papers)
...reports of “the ground thrown up as if by shovels,” and might well have brought some of the...
7Enclosure: List of Tools, 21 July 1756 (Washington Papers)
Six Shovels
8Orders, 22 July 1756 (Washington Papers)
ShovelsShovels
9To Benjamin Franklin from William Clapham, 8 September 1756 (Franklin Papers)
...Hand Barrows, and the tedious way of casting it with shovels from man to man.” 1
10Provincial Commissioners: Orders for Payment [November 23–December 29, 1756] (Franklin Papers)
Carrying 10 bbls. rum, 18 spades, 19 shovels, 50 hatchets for Clapham’s use to Ft. Hunter...shovels