Letters to Benjamin Franklin from volumes 1 and 2 of the Benjamin Franklin Papers, 1763-1766 (inclusive), [microform].

Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803

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Joseph Galloway (1731—August 10, 1803) was an American Founding Father and politician who signed the 1774 Continental Association. He became a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War, after serving as delegate to the First Continental Congress from Pennsylvania. For much of his career in Pennsylvania politics, he was a close ally of Benjamin Franklin, and he became a leading figure in the colony. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, Galloway was a moderate and proposed a Plan of Uni...

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

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Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1706] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States postmaster general. As a scientist, he was a major figure in ...

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Quincy, Edmund, 1703-1788

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Howard, Martin 1730-1781

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Jackson, Richard, 1722-1787

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Public official, Great Britain. From the description of Letters of Richard Jackson, 1755. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451234 ...

Wharton, Thomas, 1735-1778

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Philadelphia merchant; president of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania 1777-1778; commander-in-chief of Pennsylvania military forces. From the description of Autograph cover of letter : [Philadelphia?], to Elias Boudinot, 1777 Dec. 4. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122591672 ...

Mercer, George, 1733-1784.

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The Ohio Land Company of Virginia, organized by Thomas Lee, Lawrence Washington, George Fairfax and others, and later joined by John Mercer, George Mason, Robert Dinwiddie and others, petitioned the British government for a grant of 500,000 acres in the Ohio area between the mouth of the Monongahela and Kentucky rivers, including the area known as Kentucky. It fostered the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. George Mason (1725-1792) was admitted to a full partnership...

Parker, James, 1714-1770

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Franklin, Webb, 1941-

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