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Title: BF85f6-12: Post Office Accounts May 18, 1748, Documentation
Identifier(s): text:268029; Dataset ID: BF85f6-12
Description: The documentation for BF85f6-12 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.
Date: 2019

Title: BF85f6-11c: Philadelphia Post Office Record Book No. 3, 1743, Dataset C: Reckonings on page 42
Identifier(s): text:267967; Dataset ID: BF85f6-11c
Description: "Post Office Accounts drawn out Nov. 1743" [Post Office Record Book No. 3] is a small volume of ca. 50 pages. It contains a list of names with amounts due with notes as to letters delivered, paid, etc. The names are abstracted from Post Office Ledger, No. 2 [B F85f6.11b].
Date: 2019

Title: Post office book, letters received, 1767-1768, Documentation
Identifier(s): text:263181; Dataset ID: BF85f6-30
Description: 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.
Date: 2019

Title: BF85f6-6: Ledger D, 1739-1748, Documentation
Identifier(s): text:290533; Dataset ID: BF85f6-6
Description: 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.
Date: 2020

Title: Mss9748P38p-01: Quit Rent Rolls, 1688/9, Documentation
Identifier(s): text:283406; Dataset ID: Mss9748P38p-01
Description: The documentation for Mss9748P38p-01 contains descriptive metadata regarding the dataset and the source material. Also included is version information, normalization steps taken, related datasets, usage license details, preferred citation, and attribution of labor.
Date: 2020

Title: Post Office Accounts, 1748 May 18, Dataset A: Entries
Identifier(s): text:263239; Dataset ID: BF85f6-12
Description: "Post Office Accounts" May 18, 1748, is the continuation of the above ledger [Philadelphia Post Office Record Book No. 3, B F85f6.11c]. It contains 68 unnumbered pages. Per the Franklin Papers (vol. II, p. 180-181), "the amounts owed by each [name-entry] correspond[s] to the subtotals entered in May 1748 in the ledger described above as No. 2 [B F85f6.11b, Philadelphia Post Office Ledger, No.2]."; Dataset A of BF85f6-12 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.
Date: 2019

Title: Franklin Post Office Book, 1748-1752 (Outgoing Letters) Dataset
Identifier(s): text:161719
Description: 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.
Date: 2017

Title: BF85f6-15: Shop Book, 1737-1739, Documentation
Identifier(s): text:290792; Dataset ID: BF85f6-15
Description: The documentation for BF85f6-15 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.
Date: 2020

Title: Mss5515M26-02: Meteorological Journal vol. 2, 1789-1793, Dataset
Identifier(s): text:276187; Dataset ID: Mss5515M26-02
Description: "This is the second of two volumes of manuscript tables recording daily weather and other data, such as notes on plant sowing, harvesting, bird migration, and other seasonal phenomena at James Madison's plantation, Montpelier. Some notes are in Dolley Madison's hand."; This dataset contains the information from volume 2 (1789-1793) and is fully interoperable with Mss5515M26-01 (1784-1788). The manuscript entries were originally transcribed into database/tabular form by Dr. Daniel Druckenbrod. His organization scheme and annotations remain in the columns 'Druckenbrod Sort ID' and 'Druckenbrod Notes'. With the permission of Dr. Druckenbrod, these datasets were reviewed, edited, and restructured when necessary to ensure interoperability with similar datasets being created at UVA from Thomas Jefferson's weather records. Specific alterations are noted in the "Normalization and Data Standards" section of the documentation file. These changes as well as other notes from the process at APS are found in each dataset's 'APS Notes' column.
Date: 2020

Title: Post Office Accounts, 1748 May 18, Dataset B: Page Totals
Identifier(s): text:263240; Dataset ID: BF85f6-12
Description: "Post Office Accounts" May 18, 1748, is the continuation of the above ledger [Philadelphia Post Office Record Book No. 3, B F85f6.11c]. It contains 68 unnumbered pages. Per the Franklin Papers (vol. II, p. 180-181), "the amounts owed by each [name-entry] correspond[s] to the subtotals entered in May 1748 in the ledger described above as No. 2 [B F85f6.11b, Philadelphia Post Office Ledger, No.2]."; Dataset B of BF85f6-12 consists of page totals by Pounds, Shillings, and Pence owed, written at the bottom of each page of the volume. This data was separated from Dataset A during the transcription process.
Date: 2019

Title: Mss5515M26-02: Meteorological Journal vol. 2, 1789-1793, Documentation
Identifier(s): text:276190; Dataset ID: Mss5515M26-02
Description: The documentation for Mss5515M26-02 contains descriptive metadata regarding the dataset and the source material. Also included is version information, normalization steps taken, related datasets, usage license details, preferred citation, and attribution of labor.; For column structure and descriptions, see the associated JSON document.
Date: 2020

Title: BF85f6-6: Ledger D, 1739-1748, Dataset
Identifier(s): text:290516; Dataset ID: BF85f6-6
Description: 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.
Date: 2020

Title: Mss5515M26-01: Meteorological Journal vol. 1, 1784-1788, Dataset
Identifier(s): text:276186; Dataset ID: Mss5515M26-01
Description: "This is the first of two volumes of manuscript tables recording daily weather and other data, such as notes on plant sowing, harvesting, bird migration, and other seasonal phenomena at James Madison's plantation, Montpelier. Some notes are in Dolley Madison's hand."; This dataset contains the information from volume 1 (1784- 1788) and is fully interoperable with Mss5515M26-02 (1789-1793). The manuscript entries were originally transcribed into database/tabular form by Dr. Daniel Druckenbrod. His organization scheme and annotations remain in the columns 'Druckenbrod Sort ID' and 'Druckenbrod Notes'. With the permission of Dr. Druckenbrod, these datasets were reviewed, edited, and restructured when necessary to ensure interoperability with similar datasets being created at UVA from Thomas Jefferson's weather records. Specific alterations are noted in the "Normalization and Data Standards" section of the documentation. These changes as well as other notes from the process at APS are found in each dataset's 'APS Notes' column.
Date: 2020

Title: Post Office Accounts, 1748 May 18, Dataset C: Calculations
Identifier(s): text:263241; Dataset ID: BF85f6-12
Description: "Post Office Accounts" May 18, 1748, is the continuation of the above ledger [Philadelphia Post Office Record Book No. 3, B F85f6.11c]. It contains 68 unnumbered pages. Per the Franklin Papers (vol. II, p. 180-181), "the amounts owed by each [name-entry] correspond[s] to the subtotals entered in May 1748 in the ledger described above as No. 2 [B F85f6.11b, Philadelphia Post Office Ledger, No.2]."; Dataset C of BF85f6-12 contains calculations of individual transactions for several of the account holders that appear in the the book in Dataset A. These entries were recorded on paper strips pasted into the volume at page 64.
Date: 2019

Title: BF85f6-8: Post Office Book 1748-1752, Documentation
Identifier(s): text:263183; Dataset ID: BF85f6-8
Description: 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.
Date: 2019

Title: BF85f6-5: Ledgers A & B, 1730-1740, Documentation
Identifier(s): text:290795; Dataset ID: BF85f6-5
Description: 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.
Date: 2020

Title: Post office book, letters received 1767-1768, Dataset A: Entries
Identifier(s): text:263166; Dataset ID: BF85f6-30
Description: 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.
Date: 2019

Title: BF85f6-5: Ledgers A & B, 1730-1740, Dataset
Identifier(s): text:290794; Dataset ID: BF85f6-5
Description: 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.
Date: 2020

Title: Post office book, letters received 1767-1768, Dataset B: Totals
Identifier(s): text:263167; Dataset ID: BF85f6-30
Description: 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.
Date: 2019

Title: Mss9748P38p-01: Quit Rent Rolls, 1688/9, Dataset
Identifier(s): text:283390; Dataset ID: Mss9748P38p-01
Description: This, the first of two volumes, is a list of quit rents due in Philadelphia County, 1 March 1688/9. It lists names of individuals and their status (first purchaser, renter, etc.) and their tax information.
Subject: Land and Speculation--Pennsylvania History--Philadelphia History--Rent -- Pennsylvania; Land and Speculation--Pennsylvania History--Philadelphia History--Rent -- Pennsylvania
Date: 1688