Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) to David Hartley
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04632 Author/Creator: Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph note signed Date: 26 February 1775 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 23.1 x 18.4 cm. Order a Copy
Signed in text in the opening of the note and written in the third-person: "Dr. Franklin presents..." Sarcastically explains British methods for taxing the American colonies. Date from docket.
Signer of the U.S. Constitution.
[s.l.]
Dr Franklin presents his Compts. to a W Hartley, and sends the Pennsylvania Votes for 3 Successive Years, wherein he will find the Form & Manner of Requisitions. They are always contain'd in a Letter from the Secretary of State written by his Majesty's Command, the Business having been first considered & resolved in Council. A Conversation between a Chancellor of the Exchequer & an Agent [inserted: in which the former might talk of taxing the Colonies,] was never understood to be a Requisition; If the Colonies had [struck: paid] proceeded to raise Money upon [inserted: Information of] such Discourse, without knowing whether the King was privy to it or had ordered it, [struck: they] it might be expected another Year, that they would raise Money on an Intimation from the Chancellor's Secretary to the Agent's Clerk.
[docket]
Dr Franklin 26 Feb
1775
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