1753

Canasatego and the College

Canasatego and the CollegeAnother passage from the letter I wrote Peter Collinson on May 9, 1753. This contains a story I told more than once. I have added to it the official minutes of the same transaction, which I printed, which are rather different._____________________________The little value Indians set on what we prize so highly under […]

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1753, Ben Franklin

Those Swarming Germans

History, Trivia / By Benjamin Franklin, LLD, FRS.

Those Swarming GermansAnother passage from the letter I wrote to Peter Collinson on May 9, 1753. Not a passage I am now, decades later, very proud of. At the time, I sincerely feared that the great number of Germans pouring into Pennsylvania might very well betray the country to the French, and lead to the

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1753, Ben Franklin