Rec'd of John Frost ten bushels of good wheat upon the acpt of Daniell Done Junior for the use of John Hough Junior on his order by me Henry Stackhouse

List of incomes and expenditures. [Fragment]

Notes on accounts with Martha Darks (?), James Moon, William Meade, etc.

Several bills of exchange, including one from John Sexton to Edward Tipton. Also includes list of goods imported from and exported to Pennsylvania.

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Several bills of exchange, including two from Henry Gillett to Lawrence Growdon and two from William Fenton to George Greenor. On reverse is a list of a couple of goods imported to and and many goods exported from Maryland.

Bill is for common blanks, sheets of laws, advertisements, bonds, certificates, powers of attorney, etc.

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Philadelphia. Receipt from the province of Pennsylvania for money provided by Bucks County.

Amount due for tobacco papers and reams of paper.

Expenses relating to the upkeep of a sailing vessel. Includes itemized expenses for various captains working for Boynton (Captains Banton, Lecrow, Shevelair, and Price) during the year 1731. On the reverse, is the account for Michael Koyle including expenses for nails, pitch, planks, sugar, and an anchor from 1735-1742.

Philadelphia. Bill for the purchase of tea and pepper.

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Philadelphia. Receipt for the purchase of pepper, with note from Franklin "that in this Bill there is 3/6 overcharged"

Received from Franklin the sum of three pounds on account of bread.

Statement for wine bottles, punch bowls, beer, and supper. Paid in full

For printing, paper, subscription to the Gazette, etc.

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Statement for subscription to the Gazette, and an advertisement in the same.

Philadelphia. For purchase of tea and pepper.

Bill for printing and paper, advertisements, binding, a Book of Constitutions, etc.

Philadelphia. For purchase of tea and pepper.

Bill for printing and paper, advertisements, binding, a gilt Book of Constitutions, etc.

Bill for printing, paper, binding, writing tools, etc.

Philadelphia. Asking Franklin to pay an old debt upon the account of Louis Timothee.

Other Descriptive Information: See also LXVI, 39a

Bill for paper and printing, advertisements, etc.

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For printing

List of accounts kept by Franklin as a printer.

Philadelphia. Statement for accounts for books for the lottery, advertisements, paper, etc.

Payment by Franklin for 50 shillings for unidentified good/service.

Receipt for Franklin for paying 20 shillings "on account of my father."

Philadelphia. Asks Franklin to send him 3 copies of Mr. Hemphill's pamphlets.

Southampton. Receipt for large hair "matras" [mattress], pillows, etc.

Statement of accounts due for [shoes] made for Franklin's family and servants

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Newport. Received from Peter Franklin one quintel of codfish on board the sloop Elizabeth which Simmons promises to deliver, danger of seas excepted, unto Benjamin Franklin, printer in Philadelphia, he paying freight according to custom.

Bill for linen. Merchant unidentified.

Statement on purchase for paper, etc.

A note asking Franklin to send with the bearer of the message, Mr. Jannier, a well bound book for use as a day book, and charge it to Gezell's account.

Receipt for three payments for the sum of twenty pounds.

Asks for a barrell of limes for his sister Chalmers at Captain Stuarts' in Philadelphia and for Mr. Franklin to send him a ream of paper.

Receipt for four pounds paid.

Bill for stabling horses.

Philadelphia. Statement for paper, pots, linen, etc. over the period 1735-1737.

For a payment of forty shillings paid by Franklin on account of William Dewees [papermaker].

Itemized list of paper ordered by Franklin over the period of 1736-1738.

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Itemized list of linens and related materials ordered by Franklin over the period of 1735-1738.

To be supplied by Isaac Corin and charged to the account of Benjamin Franklin.

Brief list of expenses for snuff and tobacco. "Potts" is also written on the paper.

Bill for the shipment of six bundles of press papers to Newport, Rhode Island by Benjamin Franklin

Bill for tailoring, cash and sundries, funeral expenses, etc.

Itemized list of books purchased by Browne for Franklin.

Itemized list of paper ordered by Franklin over the period of 1740-1741.

List of shoes ordered by Franklin over the period 1738-1739 and paid for in 1741.

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Bill drawn on Benjamin Franklin, to be paid to George Arnold.

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Fragment

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Fragment

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List of books purchased by A. Ward

Bill for schooling for William and James Franklin, and books

Receipt for the purchase of fish.

Bill for books, insurance, sundries to Mr. Franklin, etc.

Boston. Bond for loan of twenty pounds from Benjamin Franklin by the hand of John Franklin, Boston.

Bill for child's playthings.

Upper Hanover. Statement of account for the sale of fabric (dowlas) and tea. Also includes a memorandum asking Franklin to continue to subscribe Scholtze to the Gazette. Also asks if Franklin knows the whereabouts of Thomas Butwell, who owes him money.

Philadelphia. Bill for a parcel of bound books.

Receipt for ground rent

Bill for purchasing armament from proceeds of lottery

Philadelphia. Statement for a parcel of bound books.

Statement for the sale of paper, books, etc., covering the period of 27 October 1741 to 4 September 1747.

Bill for a stove, steel, etc.

Statement for paper, etc.

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Itemized list of linens and related materials ordered by Franklin over the period of 1734-1739.

Fragment

Bill for parchment, paper, green tea, vocabularies, etc.

Bill for the New York Gazette. To be paid to William Franklin.

Bill for books

Note of payment to be made by John Tumet (?).

Bill for advertising sale of goods, sale of a tract of land, etc.

Bill for paper.

Bill for the purchase of hats.

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Receipt for payment of taxes

Bill for rent

Receipt to Franklin in settling accounts

Receipt for shipping paper to Peter Timothy.

Receipt of ten reams of printing paper shipped by Mr. Franklin of Philadelphia.

Bill for the shipment of twenty reams of paper to Jamaica by Benjamin Franklin.

Philadelphia. Receipt for ground rent. Includes later note that Mr. Hall has since paid Mr. Peters 5 years of the same rent to April 5, 1760

Asks him to discount David Stephen's account and charge the same to Grace.

Bill for fireplaces

Asks Franklin to pay Mrs. Mary Johnson the sum of nine pounds.

Bill for smoking meat, beef tongues, etc.

Statement for the hire of a carriage and horse for a trip to Boston.

Receipt for purchase of flour.

Expenses for sugar, rags, paper, wood, wine, books, etc.

Bill for the hire of Franklin's printing office at Lancaster from February 1754 - April 1757, and boarding of Dunlap, his wife, and his child, at Franklin's house from April 1757 to January 1758.

Bill for altering a gown

Bill for ground rent.

Receipt for ground rent.

Receipt for cloth "bot at vendue."

Facsimile.

Receipt for purchase of spoons and tongs.

Receipt for ground rent for a lot in Market Street

Bill for travel, upkeep of carriage, etc.

Statement for the purchase of annuities

Statement for the purchase of annuities

[Philadelphia]. Printed receipt for annual dues and quarterly fines paid by Mrs. Deborah Franklin for Mr. Robert Grace. Signed: Jos[eph] Morris, Treasurer.

Receipt for ground rent

Bill for insurance for multiple shipments of goods for the period 1758-1760.

For the period September 1757 to April 1761.

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Receipt for ground rent for Robert Grace's house

Receipt for ground rent on acount of Robert Grace

Account with Sherwood, a provincial agent in England. Balance sheet.

Receipt for linen

Receipt by the hands of Mrs. Franklin, for Master Jno. Ord.

Bill for hats, wrappers, cheese, beer, etc.

Receipt for ground rent for Robert Grace's house

Thought to have been created by Deborah Franklin

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Receipt for beer

Philadelphia. Receipt for shoeing Mrs. Franklin's horse

Account with Holt for paper

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Receipt for fifty-four pounds

Bill for set of brass castors, a steelpate handsaw, nails, saw set, tongs, shovel, screws, and hinges.

London. Receipt for the purchase of wax candles

Receipt for ground rent, on account of Robert Grace

Receipt for ground rent, on account of Robert Grace

Boston. Receipt for a book, Pietas et Gratulatio

Receipt for ground rent

Philadelphia. Receipt for purchase of sugar

Bill from London.

Philadelphia. Receipt for paving the street. Robert Grace charged in the acount

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Receipt for 12 pounds

For the period of June 25, 1757 to October 1, 1763.

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Statement for clothing--silk gloves, fine cotton hose, etc.

Payment made by [New] York money paid in [New] Jersey bills, which must be adjusted in Philadelphia money.

Philadelphia. Receipt for passage of his servant maid Ann and her park of stores in the ship Hanover Packet

Coventry Forge. Robert Grace asks Franklin to pay 120 pounds to Thomas Potts. On reverse is note signed by Potts dated 3 December 1763 stating that the bill was paid in full.

Burlington, New Jersey. Order to pay to Susanna Smith the sum of five pounds.

Receipt for a deposit for insuring his house and back buildings situated on the north side of High Street, between Front and Second Streets, where Mary Jacobs dwells.

Receipt for the London Chronicle and magazines. Paid by [William] Strahan

Receipt for five pounds, ten shillings, for the use of Governor [William] Franklin

Receipts for Franklin's payment of money "on the Club Book" and on Mr. Fouage's account for teaching.

Receipt for payment of two pounds, five shillings, paid by the hands of [William] Strahan

Receipt for moneys paid for Edward Penington.

Bill for the purchase of Madeira wine for March-April 1763. Includes some quarts purchased by William Franklin. Paid in full

Woodbridge. Receipt for payment of fifteen pounds paid on account of Benjamin Franklin

Receipt for thirty-two pounds for the use of Governor [William] Franklin

Philadelphia. To be paid to George Dillwyn. On the reverse, a bill of exchange signed by David Hall, asking George Dillwyn to pay the contents to William Strahan

Receipt for reams of money paper.

Includes note that Franklin received a payment on 1 April 1758 of 25 pounds from [John] Kirk[e], which in part paid for optical glasses and money to Mr. Keith; a payment made to Rivington and Fletcher for books, 12 June 1760; and an order made by Franklin on Hendon Brown and Son, London bankers, for balance due, 18 May 1764.

Boston. Bill for lumber, carpentry, painting, glass glazing, house washing, etc.

Burlington, [New Jersey]. Order to pay to Susanna Smith the sum of fifteen pounds.

Burlington, [New Jersey]. Request to pay to Elizabeth Roberts the sum of four pounds, four shillings.

Covent Garden, [London]. Receipt from a shoemaker

Bill for the purchase of volumes [of Modern History]

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Philadelphia. For the period March 30, 1757 to July 11, 1764.

Receipt for shoes purchased for William Franklin

London. Receipt for shipment of goods to Philadelphia.

Receipt for payment for pictures of the king and queen sent to Philadelphia to his Excellency, Governor [William] Franklin

Receipt for breeches. Fragment. Note on reverse states contents within were paid in full

Receipt for his account [at the Indian Queen] and "the club account."

Receipt for "steel spendels for ye harmonica."

Receipt for ticks and blankets

Receipt for the purchase of a complete set of Worcester tea china from J. Spenting (1765 June 4). On the reverse contains a note [circa 1766] about Priestley's history of electricity, the doctrine of two different electricities produced by exciting different susbstances.

London. Receipt from a bookbinder for two volume bound extraniary

Statement for the purchase of tea

Receipt for metal rules, yellow pine, etc.

Statement for the purchase of household items--butter, cream, callico, cloves, tea, linen, cheese, silk, buttons, butter, etc.

Receipt for interest on mortgages

Covent Garden, [London]. Receipt for muslin from a linen and drapery shop.

Statement for the purchase of beer. Paid in full

London. Receipt for the purchase of a microscope, an "electrical machine."

London. Statement for spectacles, frame, glasses to fit the frame, and "pith balls." Paid in full

Received five guineas for the plate of the American map made by Amelia Evans' father, Lewis Evans, and the rights of the copy of the book

Received payment of eighteen pounds from Franklin

Received twenty shillings "for half years pin money."

London. A second bill of exchange, after the first was not paid.

Receipt for the sale of an apron.

Receipt for chintz, linen, etc.

Receipt for payment in full for payment due to Edw[ar]d Penington.

Receipt for account paid in full for the purchase of coal, etc. from 14 December 1764 to 21 May 1766.

Bill for the shipment on board the Prince George of one case to Mrs. Franklin from Margaret Stevinson.

Receipt for indigo, log wood, etc.

Bill for household goods purchased at Mary Franklin's vendue.

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List of family expenses from 1 July 1765 to 1 October 1766.

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Statement for the purchase of candles for the period of 1765-1766. Paid in full.

Philadelphia. Note listing three payments sent to Mrs. Franklin.

Receipt for wood

Receipt for payment of one pound, five shillings for the second poors tax.

Statement for the purchase of silver--a dish, candlesticks, etc.--for the period of 1766-1767.

Bill for insurance for a shipment of goods from London to New York on board the ship New York .

Statement for the purchase of sugar and spices for the period of September 1766 to February 1767. Paid in full.

London. Bill of exchange for seventy pounds sterling for Mr. Potts of Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania.

For payment of seventy pounds. Signed by Franklin

Bill for shoes, board and schooling, pocket money, cutting of hair, mending of shoes, etc. for the period of 1766-1767. Paid in full.

Notes about memoranda sent out. March 3: Sent by post to Mr. E. Brown of Dublin a bank bill of ten pounds payable to Daniel Race or bearer dated June 12, 1766. Signed Chas. Jewson. March 4: Letter given to the post last night by Sir John Hall's man at Dr. Pringle's.

Franklin paid eleven pounds, two shillings for "bill delivered and all demands."

Receipt for payment of county tax for one year.

London. Bill for needles, thread, ribbons, material, etc. Paid in full.

Bill for painting and sealing a room. Paid in full

Philadelphia. Bill of exchange for sixty pounds. Addressed to Neate, Pigou, and Booth, Merchants, London.

Philadelphia. Exchange for thirty pounds to be paid to Benjamin Franklin.

Receipt for beer purchased by Richard Bache.

Statement for "tuning your harpischord" for the period of 7 October 1766 to 14 March 1768.

Statement for hose, silk, thread, etc.

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Bill for the purchase of sugar for 27 July 1767 to 18 February 1768. Paid in full on 18 April 1768

Bill for purchase of candles. Paid in full

Bill for the printing of Cogitata de Comelis, a paper taken out of the philosophical transactions

For the purchase of green tea.

Made out to Messrs. Brown and Whitefoord for twenty-one pounds, two shillings, and a penny. Franklin's signature is crossed out.

For sundries purchased for and sent to Jane Mecom of Boston. The itemized bills cover the period 18 October 1765 - 17 November 1768

Receipt, as attorney for Benjamin Franklin, for three bonds from Sarah Dewey, executrix of William Mangridge. (Copy.)

From the Quaker banking firm Smith, Wright, and Gray.

Statement for the purchase of beef for the period of June - October 1768 from Naglee and Holland. Paid in full, 1769

To Williams and Oliver regarding chests, etc., on board The Fame of Philadelphia

Regarding a reflecting telescope, two large speculums, etc.

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London. Bill for the shipment of two cases "contents unknown" on board the Fame from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, Philadelphia.

Itemized bill of services rendered for Franklin, 1766-1769

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For house inspections and repairs by desire of James Payne.

Barbados. Pay to the order of Messrs. Joseph and William Wanton in London.

Check made out to W. Atkinson for one hundred pounds. Franklin's signature is crossed out.

Covent Garden, London. Statement for purchase of linen, diapers, etc.

Statement for a parcel of books

Exchange for 25 pounds sterling made out to Franklin.

Burlington, New Jersey. To be paid to his excellency William Franklin, governor of New Jersey, addressed to William Symondson, "treasurer to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts." Odell is a missionary at Burlington, New Jersey.

Check made out to Mr. Pickett for twenty pounds, four shillings, and eight pence. Franklin's signature is crossed out.

For 3-week tuition with Mr. [Sammy] Johnson.

Statement for purchase of beer for 12 March - 30 July 1767. Paid in 1770.

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Bill for clothing for an African American.

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Check made out to Messrs. Brown and Whitefoord for forty-one pounds, ten shillings, and ten pence. Franklin's signature is crossed out.

Check made out to Jonathan Williams for forty-five pounds.

Sheffield. Made out to Hannah Hazlehurst.

Calculations of interest due

Virginia. Made out to Alexander Colden.

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Boston. Made out to Jonathan Williams, esquire.

For the period of April 1763 to October 8, 1771. On the reverse is a note signed by Francis Panton about a runaway slave (i.e. "negro boy") named Caesar, about 15 years of age who escaped from the subscriber [Panton] living on Broad Street, New York. A reward is offered for the return of the boy. If the boy returns, he will be forgiven for the fault he has committed. The account portion of this document is duplicated in LXVII, 29 (OS).

For the period of April 1763 to October 8, 1771. Duplicate of LXVII, 12 (OS).

Bill of exchange made out to Chalmers, Leslie, and Seton.

Charges for a small box of feeds

Bill for breeches, etc.

For the period February 1, 1765 to January 14, 1772.

Bill for pottery.

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Check made out to Messrs. Brown and Collinson for thirty pounds. Franklin's signature is crossed out.

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Made out to Alexander Colden.

New York. Made out to Alexander Colden.

New York. Made out to Mr. Williams.

Boston. Made out to Sam Hewes. Reverse includes signatures by George Erving and Alex Colden.

Southwark

Contains poem fragment on reverse.

London.

London.

London. Signed by Alexander Temple. Fragment.

Hampton, [Virginia]. Certificate by the collector of customes, certifying that there had been landed from the "Jussane", Robert Montgomery, Commander, forty boxes of soap and one box of paper.

Showing transactions from January 1770 to May 1774

Covers work done from 1768-1773.

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Hose for Master Temple.

London. Payment to Messrs. Smith, Wright, and Gray for the account of Joseph Galloway. Addressed to Thomas Nickelson.

Facsimile. Bills for books sent to the Philadelphia Library Company (July 1772-April 1774); True State of Proceedings Respecting Massachusetts and reams of paper (May 1774); reams of paper and printed materials (December 1772-September 1774).

Draft. Neither first name of Westley nor amount of the receipt appear. Signed "BF"

Copy of Franklin's account with the General Post Office for the period 1770 January 19 to 26 March 1774.

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Philadelphia. Barclay and Mitchell bill of exchange made on behalf of Josiah Hewes of the Library Company of Philadelphia, made out to David Harvey, London.

Kensington. Itemized bill for William Temple Franklin's education expenses.

London. Covers the years 1771-1775