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Title: Benjamin Franklin to William Parsons, December 15, 1755.
Identifier(s): text:141879
Description: Advising of assistance and enclosing £20 for relief of fugitives.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1755 December 15

Title: Benjamin Franklin to William Parsons, December 5, 1775.
Identifier(s): text:141868
Description: £60,000 has been granted for defense of the Province and a militia act passed; advising of the despatch of arms and ammunition.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1755 December 5

Title: Benjamin Franklin to Polly Stevenson Hewson, July 20, 1768.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3108; APSdigobj3108
Description: See also: APSdigobj3109
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Source: James S. and Frances M. Bradford Collection (Mss.B.F85.bra);
Subject: Natural history; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Alphabets (Writing systems)
Date: 1768 July 20

Title: Remarques sur la navigation de Terre-Neuve à New-York afin d'éviter les Courrants et les bas-fonds au sud de Nantuckett et du Banc de George.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3552; APSdigobj3552
Description: See: Franklin Bache, "Where is Franklin's first chart of the Gulf Stream?" American Philosophical Society, Proceedings, vol. 76, p. 731, 1936; and Benjamin Franklin, "A letter from Dr. Benjamin Franklin to Mr. Alphonsus Le Roy . . . August 1785," American Philosophical Society, Transactions, vol. 2. Philadelphia: 1786.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Gulf Stream; Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [ca. 1785]

Title: Benjamin Franklin to William Parsons, June 28, 1756.
Identifier(s): text:144052
Description: Acknowledging letter of the 19th; arrival of British regiments and doubts of their movements.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Subject: Parsons, William, 1701-1757; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1756 June 28

Title: Events leading up to the French and Indian War.
Description: Events leading up to the French and Indian War arranged in chronological order.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1756

Title: Benjamin Franklin to William Parsons, June 10, 1756.
Identifier(s): text:143662
Description: Advising of his return from Virginia and desiring to know present state of country.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Subject: Parsons, William, 1701-1757; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1756 June 10

Title: Benjamin Franklin to General William Shirley, 1756.
Identifier(s): text:140201
Description: Is represented at home as an opposer of Government and disaffected to the King's service. Since he is acquainted with what zeal he served Gen. [Edward] Braddock and also with his readiness to assist his forces by affecting the grant from the Asembly for £10,000 in provisions and clothing; he desires him to mention these things in a letter to him that he may be at liberty to communicate it to Sir Everard Fawkener,and thus remove any impressions to his disadvantage.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1756

Title: Benjamin Franklin to the Royal Society, 1765.
Identifier(s): text:140247
Description: Proposal for membership of John Winthrop, Esq., Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1765

Title: Cash account with General Post Office, 1774 December 5; Hays' number: LXVII, 125
Identifier(s): text:255075
Description: Copy of Franklin's account with the General Post Office for the period 1770 January 19 to 26 March 1774.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.et al
Subject: Postal service--United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Postal service--United States--History.; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1774-12-05; 2019

Title: Postage notes, [1741-1773] (3 of 3); Hays' number: LXVII, 121b
Identifier(s): text:255139
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.et al
Subject: Postal service--United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Postal service--United States--History.; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 2019