Benjamin Franklin Papers: Quarterly Meeting of Friends to "Our Friends and Brethren at the Meeting for Sufferings in London", 1755 May 5.

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Date:

1755-05-05

Description:

Philadelphia. Accusing the present Proprietors of a disposition to deprive them of Charter privileges; they appear to forget that the first settlers of Pennsylvania were neither criminals nor paupers, but men who came to America for conscience sake. Power of the Friends in the Legislature. The Friends in England asked to have a personal conference with the Proprietors of Pennsylvania; difficulties of the Province recently set forth in an address to the King. L.S. John Armitt, Samuel Powel, Thomas Rose, John Reynell, Samuel Preston Moore, Israel Pemberton, Anthony Morris, Hugh Roberts. 4p. Copy.

Language:

English

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:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Rights:

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

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 900, Volume XII Page 35

Collection:

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)