Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, January 25, 1756
Gnadenhathen, January 25, 1756. My Dear Child, This day week we arrived here, I wrote to you the same day, and once since. 3 We all continue well, thanks be…
Gnadenhathen, January 25, 1756. My Dear Child, This day week we arrived here, I wrote to you the same day, and once since. 3 We all continue well, thanks be…
[Fort Allen, January 24, 1756] Foulk with his Company March this Day to build another Fort between this and Fort Lebanon in the Forks of Shuylkill. 9 He is to…
[Gnadenhütten, Jan. 20, 1756] We have been here since Sunday Afternoon: 4 That Day we had only Time to get up some Shelter from the Weather and the Enemy. Yesterday…
Hayes’s 6 Jan. 16. 1756 Dear Sir I received your Favour, 7 and thank you for your kind Cautions. The Bearer, Mrs. McClean, is recommended to me as an Object…
Bethlehem, Jan. 15. 1756 My dear Child We move this Day for Gnadenhutten. 8 If you have not Cash sufficient, call upon Mr. Moore, 9 the Treasurer, with that Order…
Bethlehem, Jany. 14 1756 Sir As we drew near this Place, we met a Number of Waggons, and many People moving off with their Effects and Families from the Irish…
[Bethlehem, January 8, 1756] I arrived here last Night. 9 We met a Number of Waggons on the Road, moving off with the Effects of the People of Lehi Township.…
[Reading, January 6, 1756] Jacob Levan, 2 Esq; was sent by us to hear the Particulars of the Affair at Gnadenhutten, and fearing to go alone, sent Fifty-six Men over…
[January 5, 1756] The Honourable Robert Hunter Morris Esquire Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Pensylvania and Counties of New Castle Kent and Sussex on Delaware.…
[Allen’s-Town, January 3, 1756] I am sorry to inform you, by these Lines, of the bad News of our Defeat at Gnadenhutten. The Day you left Bethlehem, December 31, 4…