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From Lt.-Col. Leboistel. 1767. October 17. Strasbourg. 



Official recommendation of Paul Frangois Jean Baptiste de Carantene. 

 L. S. I p. (In French. Copy.) LXII, 19. 



From Jno. Eagleson to Rev. Dr. [Francis] Alison, Philadelphia. 

 1767. October 23. Halifax [Penna,]. 



Should those who are proprietors, and incline to settle townships, 

 exert themselves, they must in a few years reap the advantage. Either 

 by not considering their difficulties or being unwilling to be at what 

 they think a too great expense in enabling them to subsist for some 

 time, they run the risk of losing all or hurting the settlement of the 

 Colony, An instance of that sort which occurred to settlers destined 

 for Potitwodiac, the property of Dr. [William] Smith & Co. A. L. S. 

 I p. (Copy.) XL VII, 42. 



From Theophylact Bache to Mrs. [Deborah] Franklin, Philadelphia. 



1767. November 12. New York. 



Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bache to return home as soon as their 

 friends permit. Has sent Mrs. Franklin a box of lobsters and a barrel 

 of nuts. A. L. S. I p. XL VIII, 104. 



From [Cadwalader Evans to William Franklin]. 



1768. January 25. Philadelphia. 



The old difiference between Dr. [John] Morgan and Dr. [William] 

 Shippen. The former began to form a Medical Society and invited all 

 the faculty to join except both the Shippens. He and some others did 

 not acquiesce as they thought it would imply that the Shippens were 

 unfit to be members and might be a real injury to them. Dr. [Thomas] 

 Bond then endeavored to revive the [American Philosophical] Society. 

 He broached the scheme to several and a plan was fixed and they 

 held a meeting, at which were present Dr. Bond, the two Shippens, 

 [William] Smith, [Francis] Alison, [John] Ewing, and Sam[uel] 

 R[h]oads, at Byrnes's to elect a President and other officers. Was 

 told that Dr. Franklin was to be President and Smith or Ewing 

 Secretary, and they balloted in Governor [John] Penn and between 

 twenty or thirty others. He was not there because he did not 



