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46,149 lettersPhiladelphia, September 28, 1764. Gentlemen, Your Desire of knowing how the Militia Bill came to fail in the last Assembly, shall immediately be comply’d with. As the Governor press’d hard…
Philada. Sept. 25. 1764 Dear Sir I wrote to you the 1st Instant, and a few Lines last Week per the Packet. 7 Your Favour of June 30. is come…
Newport Rhode Island Sept 24th 1764. Sir I return you thanks for sending me Dr. Heberdens method of inoculating the small pox of which perhaps to you it may not…
Philada. Sept. 24. 1764 Dear Mr. Strahan, I wrote to you of the first Instant, and sent you a Bill for £13 and a little List of Books to be…
Philada. Sept. 24. 1764 Dear Friend, I received your kind Letter of June 29. 9 We hear nothing here of the Proprietary”s relenting. If any have it in charge from…
September 22, 1764. Sir, The Representatives of the Freemen of the Province of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, having received Information of the Resolutions of the House of Commons respecting…
Philada. Sept. 21. 1764 Sir We wrote you pretty fully of the 4th. Instant, 8 and sent our Letters to New York to be ready for the Packet 9 that…
Philada. Sept. 20. 1764 Dear Sir I receiv’d your Favour of June 30. 3 but no Line by this Pacquet. Things are here as they have been for some time…
[September 17, 1764] Know all Men by these Presents, That we Benjamin Franklin and John Foxcroft Esquires his Majesty’s Deputy Postmaster General for North America , have made, ordained and…
Philada. Sept. 2. 1764 Sir We have just receiv’d some important News from Presqu’isle on Lake Erie, which it is my Duty to take this first Opportunity of communicating thro’…
Philada. Sept. 2. 1764 Sir Furman & Co. Merchants of this Place, 6 send by Capt. Caton, 7 60 Keggs of Sturgeon, which they hope will be found so well…
Philada. July 10. 1764 Dear Sister We all condole with you most sincerely on the Death of your Daughter. 8 She always appear’d to me of a sweet and amiable…
[July 10, 1764] Benjamin Franklin and John Foxcroft Esquires His Majesty’s Deputy Postmaster General of all his Majesty’s Dominions on the Continent of North America. To all to whom these…
Lancaster 2d July 1764 I Received your Favour of the 29th Ulto. 9 and had the perusal of yours to Mr: George Ross 1 of the same Date which we…
Boston, July 2–1764 Sir Your last favor 2 informed me that you had sent my Letter to Mr. Canton inclosed in one of your own per the Packet: 3 for…
London 29 June 1764 Dear Sir, Your Favour of the 14th of March 6 came to my Hands the 15th of May last, and gave me great pleasure. The first…
Boston June 25th. 1764. Sir, The House of Representatives of his Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts Bay at the Session of the General Assembly in May last, being informed of…
Philada. June 25. 1764 Dear Sir, I wrote a few Lines to go to you via Liverpool; but they were too late for the Ship, and now accompany this. 1…
Philada. June 25. 1764 Dear Sir, We here esteem ourselves greatly oblig’d to you for your unwearied Endeavours in and out of Parliament to prevent Measures hurtful both to the…
Philada. June 23. 1764 Sir Since the Receipt of your Letter of Jany. 8th. 1763. 9 I have been twice at New York, and at York in Virginia; at both…