1From Benjamin Franklin to Sir Hans Sloane, 2 June 1725 (Franklin Papers)
...loops at the top through which an asbestos thread was run. Jessie M. Sweet, “Benjamin...
2The Busy-Body, No. 3, 18 February 1729 (Franklin Papers)
...his Great Coat was coarse and looked old and thread-bare; his Linnen was homespun; his Beard...
3Celia Single, 24 July 1732 (Franklin Papers)
...he had bought, he show’d her some Balls of Thread. ...Husband, of Thread of her own Spinning:...
4Extracts from the Gazette, 1739 (Franklin Papers)
...and sewed on the side of the Crown with white Thread, and an old dark colour’d Wig: but may...
5Extracts from the Gazette, 1740 (Franklin Papers)
...broad Scarlet Cloth, fine broad black Cloth, fine white Thread Hose, and English Sale Duck.
6Poor Richard, 1744 (Franklin Papers)
of them all. His old thread bare Excuse which he repeats Year after Year about the...
7Extracts from the Gazette, 1746 (Franklin Papers)
...a dirty white linnen shirt, and a pair of thread stockings: The person that pick’d them up,...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 25 May 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...a clean dry Glass Bottle. By a fine silken Thread from the Ceiling, right over the Mouth of...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 28 July 1747 (Franklin Papers)
.... A small Cork Ball suspended by a dry Silk Thread held in your Hand, and brought near to...
10Plain Truth, 17 November 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...the separate Filaments of Flax before the Thread is form’d, without Strength because without...