The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (144 page)

343 “proud, pompous”: Paul Langford,
A Polite and Commercial People,
354.

343 “I do not know”: Stanley Ayling,
George the Third,
100.

343 “The King’s speech”: White,
Age of George III,
66.

344 “Satan preaching … gentleman”: Ayling,
George the Third,
116–17.

345 “pleased to find”: to Jackson, Feb. 11, 1764.

345 “I am sorry”: from Strahan, Aug. 18, 1763.

345 “Surely you would not”: to Strahan, Aug. 8, 1763.

346 “I fear something”: from Jackson, Nov. 12, 1763.

347 “A moderate duty”: to Jackson, Feb. 11, 1764.

347 “I am not much”: to Jackson, Jan. 16, 1764.

348 “Why do you suffer”: Joseph Kelley,
Pennsylvania,
463.

349 “The Indians”: to Jackson, June 27, 1763.

350 “I only fear”: to Peter Collinson, Dec. 19, 1763.

351
A Narrative of the Late Massacres, PBF,
11:47–69.

353 “It would perhaps be … of days”: to Jackson, Feb. 11, 1764.

353–54 “I chose … few weeks”: to John Fothergill, Mar. 14, 1764.

354 “The Negroes”:
Narrative of the Late Massacres, PBF,
11:62.

355 “They appeared”: to John Waring, Dec. 17, 1763.

356 “He is civil”: to Collinson, Dec. 19, 1763.

356 “rank abuse”: John Penn to Thomas Penn, May 5, 1764, HSP.

356 “necklace of resolves”: to Strahan, Mar. 30, 1764.

357 “high presumption … the Crown”: Resolves, Mar. 24, 1764.

357 “dirty piece”: John Penn to Thomas Penn, May 5, 1764, HSP.

357
Cool Thoughts,
Apr. 12, 1764.

358 “God has blessed”: to Henry Bouquet, Aug. 16, 1764.

358 “O! fatal mistake”: Kelley,
Pennsylvania,
526.

16. STAMPS AND STATESMANSHIP: 1764–66

359 “Mr. Franklin died”: Joseph Kelley,
Pennsylvania,
526.

359 “Boers herding … laughing matter”: to Jackson, Oct. 11, 1764.

360 “Confound”:
PBF,
11:448.

360 “most cordial”: to DF, Dec. 27, 1764.

360 “Mr. Grenville … told him no”: Edmund S. Morgan and Helen M. Morgan,
The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution
(New York, 1962), 89–91.

361 “It will operate”:
PBF,
12:51–60.

362 “besotted”: to Joseph Galloway, Oct. 11, 1766.

362 “Will these Americans … emolument”: Morgan and Morgan,
Stamp Act Crisis,
93.

362 “I think it will”: to Hall, Feb. 14, 1765.

363 “I hope you will”: to Hall, Aug. 9, 1765.

363 “grand incendiary”: Allen to Thomas Penn, Oct. 21, 1764, HSP.

363 “tomahawk”: from Evans, Mar. 15, 1765.

364 “dying liberty … single vote”: Morgan and Morgan,
Stamp Act Crisis,
123–25.

366 “You are now … Thank God.”: from Hughes, Sept. 8–17, 1765.

367 “In the evening”: from Wharton, Oct. 13, 1765.

367 “Cousin [Josiah] Davenport”: from DF, Sept. 22, 1765.

368 “I honour much”: to DF, Nov. 9, 1765.

368 “I thank him”: to DF, Nov. 9, 1765.

369 “It is not safe”: from Hutchinson, Nov. 18, 1765.

369 “It is difficult”: from Galloway, c. Nov. 20, 1765.

370 “We might as well”: to Charles Thomson, July 11, 1765.

371 “If it continues”: to Hughes, Aug. 9, 1765.

371 “The disturbances”: to Hall, Nov. 9, 1765.

372 “I strongly recommended”: to WF, Nov. 9, 1765.

372 “the violent temper”: from Galloway, Jan. 13, 1766.

373 “Can it be”: Morgan and Morgan,
Stamp Act Crisis,
338.

373 “on which I have”: to David Hall, Feb. 24, 1766.

373 “The moral is”: to Jane Mecom, Mar. 1, 1766.

374–76 “Many, and very heavy … make one”: testimony to House of Commons, Feb. 13, 1766.

376 “The Marquis of Rockingham”: Strahan to David Hall, May 10, 1766,
PMHB
10 (1886), 220–21.

377 “They never have”: testimony to House of Commons, Feb. 13, 1766.

377 “in all cases”: Morgan and Morgan,
Stamp Act Crisis,
348.

377 “Pray Monsieur Anglais”:
PBF,
13:183–84.

17. DUTIES AND PLEASURES: 1766–67

378 “My Dear Child”: to DF, Apr. 6, 1766.

379 “The Assembly”: from Galloway, June 7, 1766.

379 “They are daily”: from Galloway, May 23, 1766.

379 “As to the reports”: to Jane Mecom, Mar. 1, 1766.

380 “’tis now perhaps”: to Roberts, July 7, 1765.

380 “Your frequently” to Whitefield, June 19, 1764.

380 “The malice”: to Samuel Rhoads, July 8, 1765.

381 “This I will never”: from Hall, Jan. 27, 1767.

382 “It was set”: to Hall, Apr. 14, 1767.

383 “So you see … well pleased”: from DF, Jan. 12, 1766.

384 “I have mentioned”: to WF, Sept. 27, 1766.

384 “I was again”: to WF, Oct. 11, 1766.

384 “certainly well framed”:
The New Regime, 1765–1767,
ed. Clarence Walworth Alvord and Clarence Edwin Carter (Springfield, Ill., 1916), 426.

384 “The Secretaries”: to WF, Aug. 28, 1767.

385 “George the Third … ministers”: Paul Langford,
A Polite and Commercial People,
363–64.

386 “I rejoice”:
The Debate on the American Revolution, 1761–1783,
ed. Max Beloff (London, 1960), 100.

386 “The confusion”: to Galloway, Aug. 8, 1767.

387 “It gave me”: report of debate in House of Lords, Apr. 11, 1767,
PBF.

387 “A Friend to Both Countries”: to
London Chronicle,
Apr. 9, 1767.

387 “Benevolus”: to
London Chronicle,
Apr. 11, 1767.

390 “beach”: to John Adams, May 18, 1787, Yale.

390 “Sally has friends”: from DF, Apr. 20–25, 1767.

390 “I would not”: to DF, May 23, 1767.

391 “I know very little”: to DF, June 22, 1767.

391 “that Mr. B.”: from WF, May [?], 1767.

392 “I received yours”: to Richard Bache, Aug. 5, 1767.

393 “Though I was not”: to DF, June 13, 1766.

393 “I found”: to Daniel Wister, Sept. 27, 1766.

394 “Every colony”: “Some Observations on North America”:
PBF,
13:346–77.

394 “well and hearty”: to the Speaker et al., Aug. 22, 1766.

394 “I have stayed”: to DF, Aug. 28, 1767.

394 “made him very uneasy”: Margaret Stevenson to DF, Sept. 18, 1767,
PBF,
14:242n.

394–97 “I was engaged … my friend’s wife”: to Mary Stevenson, Sept. 14, 1767.

397 “I have been”: to DF, Nov. 2, 1799.

18. REASON AND RIOT: 1768–69

399 “Instead of raving”: to the
Gazetteer,
Jan. 6, 1768.

399–401 “The waves … their senses”: to the
London Chronicle,
Jan. 5–7, 1768.

402–4 “My Lord H…. widely different”: to WF, Mar. 13, 1768.

405–6 “that no insult … running riot”: Stanley Ayling,
George the Third,
155–57.

406 “The scenes”: to WF, Apr. 16, 1768.

406–7 “This capital”: to John Ross, May 14, 1768.

407 “All respect”: to Joseph Galloway, May 14, 1768.

407 “There have been”: to WF, Apr. 16, 1768.

407 “’tis thought”: to Joseph Galloway, Mar. 13, 1768.

407 “I have urged”: to John Ross, May 14, 1768.

408 “If this”: to Galloway, July 2, 1768.

408 “It is a settled”: to WF, Jan. 9, 1768.

409–10 “my fast friend … divine which”: to WF, July 2, 1768.

411 “I have found”: to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, July 28, 1768.

411 “I reckon”: to Kames, Feb. 28, 1768.

412 “From the matches”: to John Alleyne, Aug. 9, 1768.

412 “I cannot be”: to Oliver Neave,
PBF,
15:295–98.

413 “I have long been”: to Evans, Feb. 20, 1768.

414 “Diir Pali”: to Stevenson, July 20, 1768.

414 “Heavenly Father”:
PBF,
15:301–3.

416 “An application”: to Cooper, July 11, 1769.

416 “very rash”: to Bache, Aug. 13, 1768.

417 “touch of the gout”: to DF, Dec. 21, 1768.

417 “He might then”: from WF, Jan. 2, 1769.

417 “Every body says”: from DF, Oct. 4, 1769.

418 “her constitution”: from Bond, June 7, 1769.

419 “It is well known”: to the
Public Advertiser,
Aug. 25, 1768.

419 “Allow me”: to the
Public Advertiser,
Oct. 21, 1768.

419 “You English”:
Public Advertiser,
Jan. 17, 1769, PBF.

420 “I am under”: to Whitefield, undated,
PBF,
16:192.

420 “I hope”: to Cooper, Apr. 27, 1769.

421 “What are you doing”: to Joseph Galloway, Feb. 7, 1769.

421 “It is very uncertain”: to WF, Oct. 7, 1769.

19. THE RIFT WIDENS: 1770–71

423–24 “IMPORTER … Horrid Massacre”: Hiller B. Zobel,
The Boston Massacre
(New York, 1970), 172–211.

424 “Bloody Massacre”: Revere print reproduced in
The Boisterous Sea of Liberty,
ed. David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz (New York, 1998), 140.

424 “Those detestable murderers”: to Samuel Cooper, June 8, 1770.

425 “The Grenvillenians”: to the
Gazetteer,
Feb. 7, 1770.

426 “This party … to use it”: to Charles Thomson, Mar. 18, 1770.