Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin from the General Assembly of Maryland, 1779 December 30.

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Date:

1779-12-30

Description:

Annapolis. An Act for calling out of circulation certain bills of credit emitted by Act of Assembly. A trustee to be appointed to go to England and sell the shares in the Bank of England owned by the State of Maryland. D. 6p. Copy.

Provenance:

Bequeathed by Benjamin Franklin to his grandson William Temple Franklin. Bequeathed by William Temple Franklin to George Fox who in turn passed on possession to his children, Charles and Mary. Found at the Fox family estate at Champlost in a stable loft by Mrs. Holbrook around 1862 and given to her by Eliza Fox subsequently. Sold by her son George O. Holbrook to a committee of friends of the University of Pennsylvania Library in 1903 and gifted by them to the University the same year.

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Letters

Geographic Subject:

Annapolis

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 900, Volume X Page 81-82

Collection:

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)