176 Miscellaneous Papers 



By The Governor of the French West Indies. 

 1755. May 31. Port au Prince, 



Leave of absence granted to Captain Guitton, of the Militia forces. 

 D. I p. (In French.) LVII, 4. 



By The General Assembly of Pennsylvania. 



1755- October 16. Philadelphia. 



Resolution relative to the appointment of Richard Partridge and Rob- 

 ert Charles as the Agents of the Province in Great Britain. D. S. 

 W[illia]m Franklin, Clerk, i p. LII, 24. 



From Israel Pemberton /o Dr. [John] Fothergill. 1755. Philadelphia. 



Has received two or three of the scandalous pamphlets which were 

 printed in England and which were styled a " State of the Province " ;^ 

 it alarmed all ranks to find they have some among them so desperately 

 bent on depriving them of their liberties. Assures him that most, 

 if not all, of the pamphlet, is false, and that it tended very much to 

 unite rather than divide the people. When the Governors of Boston 

 and New York were here, on their way to Annapolis to meet General 

 Braddock, Gov, Shirley insisted in B[enjamin] Franklin going with 

 them. He, with difficulty, undertook the journey, though he had scarce 

 perfected the scheme, which some others had projected, for enabling 

 the Assembly to raise money without the Governor's concurrence, and 

 thereby demonstrating their readiness to comply with the demands of the 

 King, The Governor [Robert Hunter Morris] mortified at the success 

 of this scheme. After the Convention, Franklin staid behind the Gov- 

 ernor in order to settle a post from Will's Creek to the City, He 

 then had opportunities of frequent conference with the General and 

 thus removed the great prejudices against the Province. The General 

 had been informed that the Province refused to supply him with pro- 

 visions, carriages, and would not open up a road from the camp to the 



^ A Brief State of the Province of Pennsylvania, in which the Conduct of 

 their Assemblies for several years past is impartially examined, and the true 

 Cause of the Continual Encroachments of the French is displayed, etc. 

 London, R. Griffiths, 1755. 



An answer to an Invidious Pamphlet, intituled A Brief State of the Province 

 of Pennsylvania. London, S. Bladon, 1755. 



A Brief View of the Conduct of Pennsylvania for the year 1755. London, 

 R. Griffiths, 1756. 



