These printed forms were filled in in manuscript and list the letters received from other colonial post offices or from ships in the Philadelphia Post Office by Postmaster Thomas Foxcroft. The records were kept during Benjamin Franklin's tenure as Postmaster of Philadelphia., Dataset A of BF85f6-30 contains the bulk of the data derived from this book. Each row has been assigned a numerical ID to allow sorting while preserving the data's context.
These printed forms were filled in in manuscript and list the letters received from other colonial post offices or from ships in the Philadelphia Post Office by Postmaster Thomas Foxcroft. The records were kept during Benjamin Franklin's tenure as Postmaster of Philadelphia., Dataset B of BF85f6-30 consists of totals by category and weight, written at the bottom of each page of the volume. This data was separated from Dataset A during the transcription process.
These printed forms were filled in in manuscript and list the letters received from other colonial post offices or from ships in the Philadelphia Post Office by Postmaster Thomas Foxcroft. The records were kept during Benjamin Franklin's tenure as Postmaster of Philadelphia., This compressed .zip file contains "Dataset A: Entries" (csv), "Dataset B: Totals" (csv), and "Documentation for BF85f6-30" (txt).
The documentation for BF85f6-30 contains descriptive metadata regarding the datasets and their source material. Also included is version information, normalization steps taken, related datasets, usage license details, preferred citation, and attribution of labor.
This is the earliest known surviving Franklin account book. It was kept by Franklin and his wife, Deborah, and very few entries are in other hands. Paper was expensive and ruled books were especially dear: therefore, Franklin used the last half of this volume for Ledger B. "Leidger A" (Journal) is the front half of the book and the entries are records of sales, purchases, printing expenses, bills, etc., under the date of the transaction, and then they were posted under the name of the customer in "Leidger B" (Ledger). Beginning with page 169 the Ledger entries follow, recording individual customers' accounts. There is an eight page index which precedes this Ledger and Franklin, by November 1736 had used all of the pages in the back of the book, so he then used the blank pages between the Journal and the Ledger, and numbered the pages from front to back. Franklin noted that he had cancelled all of the accounts by March 5, 1757, that were either "settled or not like to be recovered." Some of these were "Carried to Ledger E.", Each row has been assigned a numerical ID to allow sorting while preserving the data's context. For further information about the dataset, please see its documentation.
This is the earliest known surviving Franklin account book. It was kept by Franklin and his wife, Deborah, and very few entries are in other hands. Paper was expensive and ruled books were especially dear: therefore, Franklin used the last half of this volume for Ledger B. "Leidger A" (Journal) is the front half of the book and the entries are records of sales, purchases, printing expenses, bills, etc., under the date of the transaction, and then they were posted under the name of the customer in "Leidger B" (Ledger). Beginning with page 169 the Ledger entries follow, recording individual customers' accounts. There is an eight page index which precedes this Ledger and Franklin, by November 1736 had used all of the pages in the back of the book, so he then used the blank pages between the Journal and the Ledger, and numbered the pages from front to back. Franklin noted that he had cancelled all of the accounts by March 5, 1757, that were either "settled or not like to be recovered." Some of these were "Carried to Ledger E.", This compressed .zip file contains "BF85f6-5_Dataset_Ledger A & B 1730-1740" (csv) and "BF85f6-5_Documentation_Ledger A & B 1730-1740" (txt).
The documentation for BF85f6-5 contains descriptive metadata regarding the dataset and its source material. Also included is version information, normalization steps taken, related datasets, usage license details, preferred citation, and attribution of labor.
This large (ca. 400 page) volume contains entries for credit sales but few payments, for legal forms, paper, ink, quills, etc., much like Ledgers A and B. Also, it contains records of dealings with many public officials of Philadelphia and the governors of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey., This compressed .zip file contains "BF85f6-6_Dataset_Ledger D 1739-1748" (csv) and "Documentation for BF85f6-6" (txt).
This large (ca. 400 page) volume contains entries for credit sales but few payments, for legal forms, paper, ink, quills, etc., much like Ledgers A and B. Also, it contains records of dealings with many public officials of Philadelphia and the governors of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey., Each row has been assigned a numerical ID to allow sorting while preserving the data's context. For further information about the dataset, please see its documentation.
The documentation for BF85f6-6 contains descriptive metadata regarding the dataset and its source material. Also included is version information, normalization steps taken, related datasets, usage license details, preferred citation, and attribution of labor.
The documentation for BF85f6-8 contains descriptive metadata regarding the datasets and their source material. Also included is version information, normalization steps taken, related datasets, usage license details, preferred citation, and attribution of labor.
These datasets are created from a volume of 372 pages that records receipt and dispatch of all mail in the Philadelphia Post Office between May 25, 1748 and July 23, 1752. Deliveries into the Post Office from out of town were listed, letter by letter, by the names of the addressees, weight and amount due, paid or free. Outgoing mail was simply listed by number of sheets and weight, not by individual letters. The data is presented here in two sets, one for incoming and one for outgoing.
The records were kept during Benjamin Franklin's tenure as Postmaster of Philadelphia.
