Benjamin Franklin to Sarah Read, October 21, 1746

Oct. 21. 1746

Settled all old Accounts with Mother Mrs. Sarah Read, and I am Dr. to Ballance, One Pound Seventeen Shillings and seven pence half penny; the Bond of Portues’s 9 which I took up not reckon’d. Witness my hand

B Franklin

£1. 17 s. 7½ d.

Settled as above written, and the Ballance with £20 Cash making in all the Sum of Twenty-one Pounds Seventeen Shillings and seven pence half penny receiv’d towards that Bond per me

B Franklin

Mem[orandu]m. The Cash was paid to my Wife some time ago.