Letters about Founding Era

Joseph Priestley to Benjamin Franklin, February 13, 1776

London 13 Feby. 1776. Dear Sir I lament this unhappy war, as on more serious accounts, so not a little that it renders my correspondence with you so precarious. I…

Samuel Wharton to Benjamin Franklin, December 23, 1775

London December 23. 1775 Dear Sir The Bearer hereof Mr. Wrixon, a Gentleman of Character and good Connexions in Ireland, I beg leave to introduce to your Frindship, Civility and…

Edward Bancroft to Benjamin Franklin, December 23, 1775

London Decr. 23d. 1775. Dear Sir The difficulties and Dangers attending all American Correspondence have for sometime suspended those Communications which Friendship would have inclined me otherwise to make you.…

York County Committee to Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, December 23, 1775

Catherine Meed to Benjamin Franklin, December 16, 1775

Sunsbury Shemokin Der 16 1775 Dear Uncle I Recevd your kind Condesenging letter, 3 and think myself happy to Inform you who I am-the Daughter of John Croker. I was…

Israel Pemberton to Benjamin Franklin, December 13, 1775

Mary (Polly) Stevenson Hewson to Benjamin Franklin, December 12, 1775

Kensington Dec. 12. 1775 My dear Sir By not being inform’d in proper time I have miss’d several opportunities of writing to you, which I regret because I wish to…

Benjamin Franklin to Don Gabriel Antonio de Bourbon, December 12, 1775

Philadelphia Decr: 12. 1775 Illustrious Prince I have just received through the Hands of the Ambassador of Spain, the much esteemed present your most serene Highness hath so kindly sent…

Committee of Secret Correspondence to Arthur Lee, December 12, 1775

Philada. Dec. 12. 1775 Sir, By this Conveyance we have the Pleasure of transmitting to you sundry printed Papers, that such of them as you think proper may be immediately…

George Ross to Benjamin Franklin, December 10, 1775

Lancaster: Decr: 10th: 1775 Dear Sir I am told that the Congress have determined to raise four more Battalians in the Province. 4 And as a member of the committee…