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settlements and that it was supplying the French with provisions, etc. 

 Franklin assured him that the Assembly [of Pennsylvania] voted £5,000 

 to be laid out in provisions, etc., he refuted the other false charges 

 and everything was arranged to the General's satisfaction. Franklin 

 was unanimously thanked for this by the Assembly. The Governor's 

 message to the Assembly. Asks him to try to obviate the disadvantages 

 that may rise from Friends being misrepresented to the Government. 

 A. L. S. 4 P- (Copy.) XL VII, 5. 



Printed, in part, in Works (Sparks, VII, 96, Note). 



A State of the Paper Currency Emitted in Virginia. 1 755-1 762. 



Date, cause, and amount of the different emissions. Mem. 3 p. 



LII, 38. 



From Lord Barrington to Richard Partridge. 



1756. January 16. Cavendish Square, [London]. 



The bill concerning which they had corresponded, will be solely 

 confined to a regiment proposed to be raised in America; the papers 

 he received contain the substance of everything that is intended to 

 be inserted in the Act. A. L. S. i p. (Copy.) XL VII, 6. 



From W[illiani] Weyman to Mrs. [Deborah] Franklin. 

 1756. January 26. New York. 



Asks credit for the enclosed. Requests her to send him eighteen or 

 twenty reams of newspaper by boat and when O'Brien sails to put 

 on board as much more of news and brown paper as she can spare. A. 

 L. S. I p. XL VIII, 78. 



By John Franklin. 1756. Januar)% Boston. 

 His will. D. S. 4 p. (Copy.) LXVI, i. 



Proceedings before the Lords of Trade. 1 756. February 26. London. 



Referring to a petition by sundry inhabitants of Pennsylvania to the 

 Assembly of that Province, complaining of the defenceless state of 

 the Province and of the mischief done by the Indians. Mem. 2 p. 



LII, 26. 



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