The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (143 page)

266 “It is perhaps”:
ABF,
235.

267 “To prevent this”: to Collinson, Nov. 5, 1756.

268 “So grand an appearance”:
PG,
Mar. 25, 1756.

268 “which shook down”:
ABF,
238.

268 “Twenty officers … or malice”: to Collinson, Nov. 5, 1756.

268 “abomination”: Peters to Penn, Feb. 18, 1756, HSP.

268–69 “The city”: Peters to Penn, Apr. 25, 1756, HSP.

270 “I much wonder”: Penn to Peters, May 8, 1756, HSP.

270 “To be convinced”:
Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser,
Mar. 11, 1756.

270 “I have had”: to Strahan, July 27, 1756.

270 “The militia”: William Hanna,
Benjamin Franklin and Pennsylvania Politics,
112.

271 “I had not so good”:
ABF,
240.

271 “The people”: to Collinson, Nov. 5, 1756.

12. A LARGER STAGE: 1757–58

272 “Look out sharp”: to Strahan, Jan. 31, 1757.

273 “Mr. Franklin’s”: Penn to Peters, May 14, 1757, HSP.

275 “Lady Darlington”: J. H. Plumb,
The First Four Georges
(Boston, 1975), 36.

275
“Cette diablesse”: ibid.,
37.

276
“Robin of Bagshot
…choleric blockhead”: Paul Langford,
A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727–1783
(Oxford, UK, 1989), 14, 23.

277 “A plain clean … says Poor Dick”:
PR,
1758.

278 “Snuff-coloured”: D. H. Lawrence,
Studies in Classic American Literature
(1923; rpt. New York, 1964), 13–14.

278 “Were I a Roman Catholic”: to DF, July 17, 1757.

279 “I had for many years”: Strahan to DF, Dec. 13, 1757.

280–81 “You Americans … of agreement”:
ABF,
261–62.

281 “Heads of Complaint,” Aug. 20, 1757. 282–83 “great pain”: to DF, Nov. 22, 1757.

283 “first rate”: Thomas Hutchinson,
The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay,
edited by Lawrence Shaw Mayo (Cambridge, Mass., 1936), 2:292.

283 “Mr. Franklin”: Morris to Paris, July 4, 1757,
PBF,
7:247n.

284 “He was a proud”:
ABF,
263.

284 “For although”: WF to Elizabeth Graeme, Dec. 9, 1757.

284–85 “the privileges”: WF to
The Citizen,
Sept. 16, 1757, PBF.

285 “by exposing”:
The Citizen,
Sept. 23, 1757,
PBF,
7:255n.

285–86 “The first thing”: to Pringle, Dec. 21, 1757.

286 “From this experiment”: to John Lining, June 17, 1758.

287 “My vanity”: to DF, Sept. 6, 1758.

287 “The ingenuous”: citation accompanying diploma,
PBF,
8:279n.

287–88 “You may think”: to DF, Jan. 21, 1758.

288 “I thank you”: to DF, Nov. 22, 1757.

288 “We have four rooms”: to DF, Jan. 1758.

288–89 “The hackney coaches”: to DF, Feb. 19, 1758.

289 “Tell her”: Strahan to Hall, June 10, 1758,
PBF,
8:93n.

13. IMPERIALIST: 1759–60

291 “a province … their country”: W. A. Speck,
Stability and Strife: England, 1714–1760
(Cambridge, Mass., 1977), 243–44.

291 “I am sure”: John B. Owen,
The Eighteenth Century, 1714–1815
(Totowa, N.J., 1975), 84.

291 “The enemy have passed”: Francis Parkman,
Montcalm and Wolfe
(Boston, 1903), 2:216.

292 “Everything proves”:
ibid.,
286.

293
“Vive le roil”:
Howard Peckham,
The Colonial Wars,
190.

293 “Now, God be praised”: Parkman,
Montcalm and Wolfe,
2:309.

295 “that unmannerly sect”: to the
London Chronicle,
Dec. 27, 1759.

295
The Interest of Great Britain Considered, PBF,
9:59–100.

299–300 “She is a … Birmingham eyes”: to DF, Sept. 6, 1758.

300 “Odd characters”: to Roberts, Sept. 16, 1758.

301 “That”: to Norris, Jan. 14, 1758.

302 “a most impudent”: Penn to Peters, July 5, 1758, HSP.

302 “I still see”: to Galloway, Apr. 7, 1759.

302–3 “that harmony … and assent”: “Answer to Heads of Complaint,” Nov. 27, 1758.

303 “disrespect”: Penns to House of Representatives, Nov. 28, 1758, PBF.

303 “I need not”: to Norris, Jan. 19, 1759.

304 “The infinite variety”: WF to Graeme, Dec. 9, 1757.

305–6 “7. And the man”:
PBF,
6:122–24.

306 “We could have”: to Kames, Jan. 3, 1760.

14. BRITON: 1760–62

308 “I glory”: John Brooke,
King George III
(New York, 1972), 88, 390–91.

309 “My dear … impertinence”:
ibid.,
15.

310 “If you should … come to pass”: J. Steven Watson,
The Reign of George III, 1760–1815
(Oxford, UK, 1960), 5–7.

310 “her want … going off”: Stanley Ayling,
George the Third
(New York, 1972), 83–84.

311 “The conduct … in the grass”: Watson,
Reign of George III,
4.

311 “the man who”: R. J. White,
The Age of George III
(New York, 1968), 58.

311 “I am happy”: Brooke,
King George III,
89.

311 “My Lord … to ruin”:
ibid.,
78.

311 “bloody and expensive”: Ayling,
George III,
65.

311 “Oh, that foolishest”:
ibid.,
90.

312–13 “deceit and circumvention … jockeyship”: to King in Council, Feb. 2, 1759.

314 “almost rebellious”:
PBF,
9:128.

314 “not only against”: Report to the Lords of the Committee of Council, June 24, 1760.

315 “Lord Mansfield”:
ABF,
265–66.

316 “A more unlucky”: to the Trustees of the Loan Office, Feb. 13, 1762.

316–17 “a little work … universal use”: to Kames, May 3, 1760.

318 “I never saw”: to Kames, Oct. 21, 1761.

318 “I imagine”: to Kames, May 3, 1760.

319 “whatever occurs”: to Mary Stevenson, May 1, 1760.

319 “to warm”: to Stevenson, Sept. 13, 1760.

319 “No one catches cold”: to Stevenson, Aug. 10, 1761.

319 “Why will you”: to Stevenson, May 1, 1760.

320 “The knowledge”: to Stevenson, June 11, 1760.

320 “I cannot but wish”: to Hume, Sept. 27, 1760.

321 “The Church”: to Hume, May 10, 1762.

322 “But this opinion … earthquakes”: to [Peter Franklin], May 7, 1760.

322 “Suppose a long canal”: to Alexander Small, May 12, 1760.

323–24 “Entertainment … objectionable”: to Pringle, May 27, 1762.

325 “Being charmed”: to Beccaria, July 13, 1762.

326 “We saw all”: WF to Sarah Franklin, Oct. 10, 1751.

327 “When I travelled”: to Ingersoll, Dec. 11, 1762.

327 “ransacted”: Sheila Skemp,
William Franklin,
40.

328 “The lady”: to Mecom, Nov. 25, 1762.

329 “in opposition”: to Strahan, July 23, 1762.

329 “I am now”: to Kames, Aug. 17, 1762.

329 “I am very sorry”: from Hume, May 10, 1762.

329 “This will be brought”: Strahan to Hall, Aug. 10, 1762, PBF.

15. RISING IN THE WEST: 1762–64

331 “I shall probably”: to Strahan, Aug. 23, 1762.

332 “Of all”: to Mary Stevenson, Mar. 25, 1763.

332 “It produces”: to Richard Jackson, Dec. 6, 1762.

332–33 “I arrived”: to Jackson, Dec. 2, 1762.

333 “I find”: to Jackson, Mar. 8, 1763.

333 “a conquest”: to Caleb Whiteford, Dec. 9, 1762.

334 “glorious peace”: to Philip Ludwell, Feb. 22, 1763.

334 “Throughout this continent”: to Strahan, May 9, 1763.

334 “The glory …
were dead”:
to John Whitehurst, June 27, 1763.

335 “Grumblers”: to Strahan, May 9, 1763.

335 “Here in America”: to John Whitehurst, June 27, 1763.

335 “many thousands”: Plan for Settling Two Western Colonies,
PBF,
5:457ff.

336 “I know not”: to Jackson, Mar. 8, 1763 (with postscripts of Mar. 22 and 29).

337 “I have assured … iron is hot”: to Jackson, Apr. 17, 1763.

338 “under the influence”: Sheila Skemp,
William Franklin,
48.

338 “I am just returned”: to Strahan, Mar. 28, 1763.

339 “Notwithstanding”: to Bessborough, [Oct. 1761].

340 “I am not yet”: to Catharine Ray Greene, Sept. 5, 1763.

340 “I am otherwise”: to Jane Mecom, Dec. 15, 1763.

340 “Now I am”: to Strahan, Dec. 19, 1763.

341 “My mother”: WF to Strahan, Apr. 25, 1763,
PBF,
10:237n.

342 “I expected”: to Strahan, June 28, 1763.

342 “Not an hour”: from Strahan, Aug. 18, 1763.

342 “talk away”: R. J. White,
The Age of George III,
64.

342 “inexhaustible spirits … nothing can crush”: John Brooke,
King George III,
145.

343 “Naturally”: J. Steven Watson,
The Reign of George III,
98.

343 “That depends”: Horace Bleackley,
Life of John Wilkes
(London, 1917), 69.

343 “It is certainly”: White,
Age of George III,
61.