2i8 Miscellaneous Papers 



From The Trustees of the Burlington Free School to George III. 



1773- January 5. Burlington. 

 Burlington Island, included in the grant to the Duke of York, 

 alwa3's considered a part of New Jersey. By a Proprietary Act in 

 1682 the Island had been vested in the town of Burlington, for the 

 maintenance of a free school, and had always remained thus. The 

 petitioners hope that the alarming reports of the grant of all the 

 islands in the Delaware, without exception, to some noble Lord for 

 his private benefit, is not true. Beg the confirmation of their title. D. 

 S. John Hoskins, et al. 3 p. LIII, 10. 



From W. Chapman to [William] Henly, London. 



1773. February 7. Brighton. 



Cannot give any further account of the bell, as in soldering, it was 

 put on the fire and that has taken out the mark where the lightning 

 struck. A. L. S. I p. XLVII, 58. 



From S[amuel] Wharton to J[oseph] G[alloway] and T[homas] 

 W[harton, Sr.]. 1773. April 9. London. 



Acknowledging their favor of 3d ult., and thanking them for their 

 communications about the bill relative to the new frontier County; ac- 

 count of petition presented to the King by the Messers Penn, as soon as 

 they heard of this bill. Since then has dined with Lord Camden, Mr. 

 [Thomas] Walpole, Mr. [Richard] Jackson and Mr. [Thomas] Pitt; 

 where it was resolved to oppose the Act of Assembly and to call on Mr. 

 [John] Penn to establish his western bounds agreeable to the express 

 conditions of his grant. Question of a name for the new province. 

 Discusses in detail the boundaries of Pennsylvania. Copy of a short 

 extract from a letter from T[homas] W[harton] to J[oseph] G[al- 

 loway], enclosing the foregoing, dated the 3d or 4th of June, 1773. 

 L. 3 p. (Copy.) Ill, 145. 



From D. [Mrs. William] Dunlap to Mrs. [Deborah] Franklin, 

 Philadelphia. [Circa 1773.] April 27. Straton Parish. 



Is glad to hear of Mrs. Franklin's recovery. Wishes to be back 

 in Philadelphia where her two daughters could go to school. Accom- 

 panied by a letter from B. Connell to Mrs. Franklin, relative to Mrs. 

 Dunlap's poor health. A. L. S. 2 p. XLVIII, 118. 



