Letter
Israel Pemberton to Benjamin Franklin, October 17, 1770
[Oct. 17, 1770. Is going on a long journey and wants Franklin to pay the balance due from five years’ ground rent of property in Pewter Platter Alley. 1 The total rent was £101 5 s. , of which Franklin had paid £60 in 1769, leaving £41 5 s. due.]
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9 . A wealthy Quaker merchant, for whom see above, V , 424 n.nn1 . BF had bought the property in 1764 from James Pearson, to whom Pemberton had sold it with the reservation of the ground rent. See above, XI , 319u201321.
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