Record Series and Collections

1731

Typescript of two-part article by Meredith, recent emigrant from Philadelphia to Carolina, taken from letters to his former printing partner Benjamin Franklin and published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, Nos. 129 and 130 (1731), giving an account of the ...

1769

Letter concerns irregularities in salt trade from Sal Tortuga.

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1778

Concerning suspected fraud in allegations that the snow LA JEUNE PAULINE, bound France - North Carolina, Isaac Belleveau, master, was purchased for Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane.

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1777

Family and financial news and a long account of the desperate situation in which the American rebels find themselves; cowardice of the rebel soldiers and their dwindling numbers; the total lack of success in France of "that calmly-obstinate ...

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1782 - 1938

This map was published by the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission under the direction of Colonel Lawrence Martin as one of a set of facsimilies portraying the original thirteen states at the time of the ratification of the ...

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1769

Has known well the bearer, Mr. Drage, for 16 years; has lived in or near Philadelphia "and ever maintained the Character of an honest Man."

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1786

This map was engraved by James Poupard (fl 1772-1814), an engraver, jeweler, and goldsmith who came to Philadelphia from London in 1772, from sketches by Benjamin Franklin based on daily measurements of water temperature made during crossings of the ...

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1778

(3pp. photocopies.) First note gives thanks for the conveyance of news about the US-French treaties of alliance, amity, and commerce. The second clearly outlines the basic points of the treaties that had been recently completed and signed. (Extract ...

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1780

Borritz, master of the ship Fair America (formerly the Holy Heart of Jesus), informs the Assembly that he has yet to receive the full amount of tobacco promised for delivery of cannons to the state. The Assembly appoints a committee to investigate, ...

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1785

Memorial is from John Adams, at that time Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. Adams admonishes the government of England for not keeping with the Treaty of Paris and removing troops from areas that should rightly belong to America. Areas that ...

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1784

Bill would remove the disabilities in regards to land that exist for the surviving family of Timothy Cleary. After Cleary's death, his land was wrongfully confiscated and sold when it should have passed to his family, who live in Ireland. Attempts were ...

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The document lists seven acts of the United States Congress in 1790. Includes information on debts, the settlement of accounts, lighthouses, plantations, France, Benjamin Franklin, distilled spirits, and more.

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