13 October 1743

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 774 (October 13, 1743)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Copy of Commodore Charles Knowles' manifesto to the Spaniards when he came upon the coast of Caracas published. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.

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10 November 1743

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 778 (November 10, 1743)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Printed speech of New Jersey Governor Lewis Morris to that state's assembly and their reply. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.

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16 November 1743

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 779 (November 16, 1743)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Printed speech of New Jersey Governor Lewis Morris to that state's assembly. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.

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24 November 1743

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 780 (November 24, 1743)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Printed speech of New York Colonial Governor George Clinton to that state's assembly. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.

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15 December 1743

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 783 (December 15, 1743)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Printed speech of Pennsylvania Royal Governor George Thomas to that state's assembly and their reply. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.

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31 May 1784

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Count Vergennes

Regardless of current discussions, notes that powers of consuls have been agreed to with Rayneval and are awaiting signatures.

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9 April 1773

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ms Parker

Responds to a complaint from the daughter of his recently deceased business partner, James Parker: "Desiring nothing but what is just, shall be more pleas'd to find little due to me than much...I think it contributes to the Duration of Friendship, to keep its Accounts, & those of Business, distinct & separate; and that as exact Justice in Pounds Shillings & Pence should be observed between Friends as between Strangers. I always intended making Mr Parker an Allowance for the Time he spent and the trouble he took in settling my Accounts with Mr Hall [Franklin's partner] after I…

GLC09074

1765/05/30

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1901 (May 30, 1765)]

Contains an announcement of the passage of the Stamp Act on p. 2 and mentions the new stamp duties in other sections. Reports news from around Europe and the colonies, including an act passed in Philadelphia for the maintenance and repair of roads. Contains various advertisements.

GLC01714

1765/07/18-1765/09/19

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1908 (July 18, 1765), no. 1910 (August 1, 1765), no. 1914 (August 29, 1765) - no. 1917 (September 19, 1765)]

In addition to news from Europe and the colonies, and various advertisements and announcements, each issue touches on the controversy surrounding the Stamp Act. Issue 1908 reports on an upcoming colonial assembly which will seek relief from the Stamp Act (p. 2). Issue 1910 contains a letter opposing the Stamp Act (p. 2). Issue 1914 has a letter on the proposed Quartering Act, mentions the burning in effigy of a distributor of the stamps, and has a letter from the General Assembly in Providence seeking relief from the Stamp Act (all on p. 2). Issue 1915 contains a Massachusetts…

GLC01715

1765/09/26-1765/10/24

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1918 (September 26, 1765) - No. 1922 (October 24, 1765)]

In addition to news from Europe and the colonies, and various advertisements and announcements, each issue touches on the controversy surrounding the Stamp Act. Issue 1918 reports on the burning in effigy of a stamp distributor in Annapolis, the attachment of a copper plate reading "Tree of Liberty" to a tree in Boston as well as a conference on the Stamp Act in that town, and resolutions against the Stamp Act in Newport and Philadelphia (p. 2-3). Issue 1919 contains extracts from various meetings and letters opposing the Stamp Act (p. 2-3). Issue 1920 reports on the resolutions of the…

GLC01716

1765/10/31

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1923 (October 31, 1765)]

Reports on resistance to British quartering, a meeting of freeholders in Boston to discuss the Stamp Act, reaction to the arrival of the stamps in New York, and a declaration in Philadelphia claiming the act was unconstitutional (p. 2-3). Also contains other news from around the colonies and Europe and various advertisements. Printed with black borders, the last issue before final implementation of the Stamp Act required the newspaper to have the tax. This issue is also the last with Franklin's name in the imprint.

GLC01717

1765/11/21-1765/12/26

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1926 (November 21, 1765) - no. 1931 (December 26, 1765)]

In addition to news from Europe and the colonies, and various advertisements and announcements, each issue touches on the controversy surrounding the Stamp Act. Issue 1926 reports on a Massachusetts resolution against the Stamp Act and the burying of a copy of the act in Portsmouth and Hartford (p. 1). Reprints an article with resolutions from Connecticut in opposition to the act (p. 2-3) and reports on activities in New York (p. 3). Issue 1927 reports on a meeting of Massachusetts freeholders in opposition to the Stamp Act and speeches in the House of Assembly in Boston (p. 1), as well as…

GLC01718

February 27, 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1107 (February 27, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Open letter from "Britannicus" to "The Fool" discussing conscience. Poem from Mrs. Jenny Hamilton to Mrs. Duck about love and marriage. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Discussion of the Pennsylvania lottery and announcement of prize amounts. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships.

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February 17, 1743

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 740 (February 17, 1743)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 3 and 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.

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February 19, 1745

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 845 (February 19, 1745)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 3 and 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships.

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1738/05/04

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Broadsheet

Title: Postscript to the Pennsylvania Gazette

The "Dear Ned" political allegory printed by Benjamin Franklin. An interesting letter, full of allegory, which speaks of injustices and deceptions but not specifically alluding to particular individuals.

GLC06957

1770/05/07

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Document signed

Title: Admitting Ohio Co. as co-purchaser of land (c/s Wharton, Pownall & Walpole)

Signed by Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Wharton, Thomas Pownall and Thomas Walpole. The document admits the Ohio Company as additional co-purchaser for a tract of land "for a new province on the Ohio." The manuscript states how the land will be divided. (The land being purchased is now in the state of Indiana.) Accompanied by a manuscript sale announcement for several thousand acres "situated on the River Ohio, a little above the River Kentucke [sic]."

GLC05311

1771/05/15

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Adams, et al. re: British policy & the potential loss of the colonies

"History shows that by these Steps great Empires have crumbled heretofore; and the late Transactions we have so much Cause to complain of, show that we are in the same Train, and that without a greater Share of Prudence and Wisdom than we seem on both Sides to be possessed of, we shall probably come to the Same Conclusion" Includes only last page of original letter, along with a collateral transcript of the remainder.

GLC07651

1766/03/31-04/05 ca.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autograph manuscript

Title: Necessity of an Equal Currency for All America

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1777/05/27

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to nephew Jonathan Williams re: belief in ultimate success of American cause

Franklin states that "You and your Country are engag'd in a good Cause, which God will finally crown with Success. Let nothing discourage." Franklin also mentions Williams' son John in Nantes. Franklin concludes: "I continue amazing well and hearty for my Age, and hope to live to see the End of these Troubles, and our Country establish'd in Freedom, when it will soon become great and glorious, by being the Asylum of all the Oppress'd of Europe, and the Resort of the Wealthy who love Liberty...." (Stored as open folio)

GLC04430

1785/12/03

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Document signed

Title: Printed pay order addressed to David Rittenhouse for Lewis Farmer (soldier)

Partly printed document directing payment to Farmer, "state Lieutenant Colonel of the 13th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line ... the sum of two shillings eight pence, being one year's interest on his depreciation certificate...."

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1785/10/26

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Jay re: Jean-Antoine Hudon and bust of George Washington

"To take the bust of General Washington, in order to make his statue for that state [i.e., Virginia]... he is of the first reputation in his profession, and has a great share of the ambition I admire in an artist."

GLC07558

1779/01/01

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Marquise de Boulainvilliers re: humorous use for Franklin's lightning rods

Written in French. With a collateral wrapper (with note in French), identifying it as a letter concerning marriage of the Marquise's daughter.

GLC07500

1786/06/12

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Letter signed

Title: to John Franklin, William Hooker Smith, and John Jenkins

Franklin, writing as president of the Pennsylvania Council, discusses the strife in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, land that was claimed by both Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Acknowledges the "affliction" of the Yankee settlers, describes the testimony heard by the Council, and offers safe passage for an agent. The Connecticut settlers were later given clear title to the land, but John Franklin was imprisoned for treason. The conflict arose under the Articles of Confederation and helped justify support of a new Constitution.

GLC04686

1751/05/01

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Document signed

Title: Promissary notes no. 15, no. 16 to raise funds for Pennsylvania hospital

First American incorporated public hospital; no. 16 is signed in by Franklin; subscribers signatures excised as cancellation.

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