Letters from Benjamin Franklin 501 



To [Joseph Priestley], 1775. October 3. Philadelphia. 



Sets out for the camp to-morrow. Asks him to tell Dr. [Richard] 

 Price that America is determined and unanimous, and to calculate how 

 long it will take the British to kill all the Americans and conquer their 

 whole territory, from the statistics he gives. L. S. 2 p. (Copy in 

 French.) XLV, 36c. 



Printed in Works (Smyth, VI, 429). 



To [Charles Guillaume Frederick] Dumas. 



1775. December 9. Philadelphia. 



Sending £200 as compensation for his services and to defray the 

 expenses of his mission. Promise that his services will always be recog- 

 nized and rewarded by Congress, i p. (Copy.) LIII, 19a. 



Efforts of France and England to Destroy Civil Liberty. 



[Circa 1775.] 

 A. Dr. of Diss, i p. L(i), 15. 



Proposed Resolution of the Continental Congress. [Circa 1775.] 



Since America aided Great Britain in conquering Canada and Louis- 

 iana, and has not been given any consideration for it, resolved that, 

 in case such satisfaction is refused, all lands in America claimed by the 

 Crown and all quit rents unpaid to the same, shall be considered 

 as liable to an appropriation for that purpose. Advise all persons not 

 to pay quit rents and not to purchase lands from the Crown till such 

 satisfaction shall be made. A. Dr. of D. i p. L(ii), 52. 



Protest of the Representatives of the State of Pennsylvania 



Against the Proposed Inequality of the Votes in Congress, and 



Dissent to the Articles of Confederation for that Reason. 



[1776. July.] 



A. Dr. of D. 2 p. L(i), 35. 



Printed in Journals of the Continental Congress, Vol. V, 1776, p. 554, Note 

 (Washington, 1906). 



Proposed Resolution of the Continental Congress. [1776. July.] ? 



Draft of a motion to shut up all custom houses in the Colonies 

 from and after July 20, 1776; to discharge the officers of the same, 



