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{"created_timestamp": "03-13-1730", "downloaded_timestamp": "10-18-2021", "url": "https://founders.archives.gov/API/docdata/Franklin/01-01-02-0048", "content": "Title: Printer\u2019s Errors, 13 March 1730\nFrom: Franklin, Benjamin\nTo: \n  To the Publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette.\n  Printerum est errare.\n  Sir,\nAs your last Paper was reading in some Company where I was present, these Words were taken Notice of in the Article concerning Governor Belcher, [After which his Excellency, with the Gentlemen trading to New-England, died elegantly at Pontack\u2019s]. The Word died should doubtless have been dined, Pontack\u2019s being a noted Tavern and Eating-house in London for Gentlemen of Condition; but this Omission of the Letter (n) in that Word, gave us as much Entertainment as any Part of your Paper. One took the Opportunity of telling us, that in a certain Edition of the Bible, the Printer had, where David says I am fearfully and wonderfully made, omitted the Letter (e) in the last Word, so that it was, I am fearfully and wonderfully mad; which occasion\u2019d an ignorant Preacher, who took that Text, to harangue his Audience for half an hour on the Subject of Spiritual Madness. Another related to us, that when the Company of Stationers in England had the Printing of the Bible in their Hands, the Word (not) was left out in the Seventh Commandment, and the whole Edition was printed off with Thou shalt commit Adultery, instead of Thou shalt not, &c. This material Erratum induc\u2019d the Crown to take the Patent from them which is now held by the King\u2019s Printer. The Spectator\u2019s Remark upon this Story is, that he doubts many of our modern Gentlemen have this faulty Edition by \u2019em, and are not made sensible of the Mistake. A Third Person in the Company acquainted us with an unlucky Fault that went through a whole Impression of Common-Prayer-Books; in the Funeral Service, where these Words are, We shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an Eye, &c. the Printer had omitted the (c) in changed, and it read thus, We shall all be hanged, &c. And lastly, a Mistake of your Brother News-Printer was mentioned, in The Speech of James Prouse written the Night before he was to have been executed, instead of I die a Protestant, he has put it, I died a Protestant. Upon the whole you came off with the more favourable Censure, because your Paper is most commonly very correct, and yet you were never known to triumph upon it, by publickly ridiculing and exposing the continual Blunders of your Contemporary. Which Observation was concluded by a good old Gentleman in Company, with this general just Remark, That whoever accustoms himself to pass over in Silence the Faults of his Neighbours, shall meet with much better Quarter from the World when he happens to fall into a Mistake himself; for the Satyrical and Censorious, whose Hand is against every Man, shall upon such Occasions have every Man\u2019s Hand against him. I am, Sir, your Friend, &c.\nJ.T.", "culture": "English", "source_dataset": "Pile_of_Law", "source_dataset_detailed": "Pile_of_Law_founding_docs", "source_dataset_detailed_explanation": "Letters from U.S. founders.", "creation_year": 1730},
{"created_timestamp": "06-23-1730", "downloaded_timestamp": "10-18-2021", "url": "https://founders.archives.gov/API/docdata/Franklin/01-01-02-0049", "content": "Title: [Two Dialogues between Philocles and Horatio, concerning Virtue and Pleasure, 23 June 1730, 9 July 1730]\nFrom: Franklin, Benjamin\nTo: \nDuane included these two dialogues and seven other pieces from the Gazette in his edition of Franklin\u2019s writings (Works, iv, 367\u2013405) on the basis of a note, purportedly in Franklin\u2019s hand, on the inside cover of a bound volume of the Gazette listing the essays and stating that they were \u201cwritten by B.F.\u201d Later editors have followed Duane in printing some or all of them. Franklin specifically mentions in his autobiography having written one of the group, an essay on Self-Denial, and it is included in the present edition in its proper place (Feb. 18, 1735). For the other eight, there is no external evidence of Franklin\u2019s authorship; on the contrary, five of them are known to have been published elsewhere before they appeared in the Gazette. Neither the style nor the content of the remaining three suggests to the present editors that Franklin wrote them. He took the two dialogues between Philocles and Horatio from the London Journal, March 29 and September 20, 1729, as Alfred Owen Aldridge first noted (\u201cFranklin\u2019s \u2018Shaftesburian\u2019 Dialogues not Franklin\u2019s: A Revision of the Franklin Canon,\u201d American Literature, xxi [1949], 151\u20139). The other rejected pieces in this group are listed below according to their dates of appearance in the Gazette, but simply by title and with reference back to this note.", "culture": "English", "source_dataset": "Pile_of_Law", "source_dataset_detailed": "Pile_of_Law_founding_docs", "source_dataset_detailed_explanation": "Letters from U.S. founders.", "creation_year": 1730},
{"created_timestamp": "07-04-1730", "downloaded_timestamp": "10-18-2021", "url": "https://founders.archives.gov/API/docdata/Franklin/01-01-02-0051", "content": "Title: Ledger A & B, 4 July 1730\nFrom: Franklin, Benjamin\nTo: \nThe earliest of Franklin\u2019s surviving business record books is a tall, narrow volume (15 in. by 6 in.) of 380 pages, lettered on the cover \u201cLeidgers A & B,\u201d and ruled as an account book. It covers in general the years 1730\u201338, although some entries of both earlier and later dates are included. Only credit transactions are recorded, not \u201cover-the-counter\u201d cash sales and purchases. Except for a few miscellaneous records and memoranda, the entries are of two kinds: \u201cjournal\u201d and \u201cledger.\u201d\nThe flyleaf bears the inscription: \u201cBenja Franklin\u2019s Journal, began July 4. 1730.\u201d The next 73 pages record a series of transactions, chronologically entered, including such items as goods bought and sold, printing services rendered to customers, payments made or received on account, promissory notes given or received. Nearly all the entries are in Franklin\u2019s hand; a very few are by an unknown person, perhaps one of his journeymen, and the rest are by Deborah Franklin. The last regular entry is dated December 7, 1737, and is followed by a memorandum marked only \u201cFeb.\u201d The nature of the entries in this Journal can be seen from the following samples selected from the early pages of the record:\nJuly\nAndrew Hamilton Esq. Dr. To \u00bd Doz. Powers of Attorney\n  Morris Trent of Trentown Cr By Cash\nOct.\n  Dr. John Moore Esq. to printing blank Lists\nNov.\n  Adjusted Accts with Mr. Whitemarsh to the 26th Day of October past, and I am Dr to Ballance\nJan\n  Province of Pennsylvania Dr To printing Votes of the last Session of the Assembly in Augt 1730. 3 Sheets a 26/\n  To printing Laws made that Session relating to Damms and Trustees &c. 2\u00bd Sheets a 25/\n  To printing Votes 1\u00bd Sheets of the first Session of this Assembly a 26/ per\nJan\n  Bought of Wm. Allen 20 Reams of Paper 13 a 12/ & 7 a 15/\nThe same kinds of entries are also found in a surviving \u201cShop Book,\u201d covering the period November 14, 1735, to August 3, 1739. Most of these are in Deborah Franklin\u2019s hand, although her husband\u2019s writing appears often enough to suggest that during the period when the Journal and the Shop Book overlapped (November 14, 1735, to December 7, 1737) Franklin may have recorded his business transactions in whichever volume happened to be convenient at the moment.\nOn the 169th page of \u201cLedger A & B\u201d is a new heading: \u201cAccounts posted or Ledger.\u201d Beneath is a memorandum which Franklin wrote shortly before he sailed for England in 1757, that shows his effort to set his records in order: \u201cI have drawn a red Line over all such Accounts in this Book, as are either settled or not like to be recovered. B. Franklin March 5, 1757.\u201d Approximately 190 numbered pages of ledger entries follow, recording in debit and credit columns his individual customers\u2019 accounts. Some of these were opened in 1728 or 1729, but most start in 1730 or later. Immediately preceding this Ledger is an eight-page alphabetical index of these customers.\nMany of the individual accounts in both parts of the Ledger are canceled with red lines as indicated in Franklin\u2019s note of 1757; others terminate with the words \u201cCarried to Ledger E\u201d (which has not been found), or some similar phrase. A large proportion remain unbalanced as between debit and credit entries, and many show no credit entries at all. Most, but not all, of the separate entries first appear under their respective dates in the Journal or the Shop Book, from which they were posted to the appropriate customer\u2019s account in the Ledger. The principal exceptions are charges for Gazette advertisements and subscriptions, which are only occasionally entered in either of the daily records. On the other hand, some Journal and Shop Book entries are not found in the Ledger. A few of the final pages of the Ledger contain lists of otherwise unrecorded \u201cSmall Debts\u201d and \u201cAdvertisements in Gazette not paid for,\u201d together with a number of miscellaneous jottings and accounts.\nThe following examples will illustrate the various kinds of business activities recorded in the Ledger and some of the methods of payment:\nTrustees OF THE Loan Office Dr\nContra\nCr\nFeb. 3\nFor an Advertisement\nFor Cash in full\n  For Printing & Paper of 40000\u00a3\nFor Cash at twice\n  Abated\n  George Brownell Dr\n  Contra\nCr\n  For 2 Doz Watts Psalms\n  For Cash pd Mr. Heurtin [?]\nFeb. 7\n  For binding a small Book\n  For a Psalmbook\n  For \u00bd doz Bibles\nNov. 27\n  For a spelling Book\n  For Cash paid Skelton\nJan. 6\n  For Advt of Schoolkeeping &c\nSept. 7\n  For a Sermon\n  For 4 quire paper\n  For the Gazette 2 Year & 7 months\nContra Cr by Cash in full\nAnthony Nichols\nDr\nContra\nCr\nFor Cash\n  By Dogs & Pothooks\n  For Barclay\u2019s Apology\n  For a gilt Bible\nFor Cash\n  For a Power Attorney\n  For an Account Book\n  For an Almanack 1734\n  For Advt in Gazette Owen Evans\nSept. 6\n  For a Slate and Pencil\nMay 11\n  For a blank Book 6 quire Carried to Ledger E\nThis Journal and Ledger and the associated Shop Book provide an extended view of Franklin\u2019s business activities during the period they cover. From these pages one can learn a good deal about his commercial printing, the advertising he carried in the Gazette, the goods he sold in his shop, and those he bought for business use or sale. But the books do not permit a complete and detailed reconstruction of his financial affairs. There are no records of strictly cash transactions, no inventories of stock and equipment. Wages and most of his other outlays are only hinted at in occasional memoranda or are omitted entirely. Franklin must have kept other books which have not been found. Consequently, neither these volumes nor such other fragmentary records as do survive for these years would enable one to prepare even approximately accurate periodic statements of income and expense, of profit and loss, or of assets and liabilities. What information these books do offer on the details of his business is ably illustrated by George Simpson Eddy\u2019s study, Account Books Kept by Benjamin Franklin: Ledger 1728\u20131729, Journal 1730\u20131737 (New York, privately printed, Columbia University Press, 1928).", "culture": "English", "source_dataset": "Pile_of_Law", "source_dataset_detailed": "Pile_of_Law_founding_docs", "source_dataset_detailed_explanation": "Letters from U.S. founders.", "creation_year": 1730},
{"created_timestamp": "07-14-1730", "downloaded_timestamp": "10-18-2021", "url": "https://founders.archives.gov/API/docdata/Franklin/01-01-02-0052", "content": "Title: To Benjamin Franklin from Hugh Meredith: Dissolution of Partnership, 14 July 1730\nFrom: Meredith, Hugh\nTo: Franklin, Benjamin\nBe it remembered, That Hugh Meredith and Benjamin Franklin have this Day separated as Partners, and will henceforth act each on his own Account. And that the said Hugh Meredith, for a valuable Consideration by him received from the said Benjamin Franklin, hath relinquished, and doth hereby relinquish to the said Franklin, all Claim, Right or Property to or in the Printing Materials and Stock heretofore jointly possessed by them in Partnership; and to all Debts due to them as Partners in the Course of their Business; which are all from henceforth the sole Property of the said Benjamin Franklin. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand, this fourteenth Day of July, Anno Dom. One Thousand seven Hundred and Thirty.\nHugh Meredith", "culture": "English", "source_dataset": "Pile_of_Law", "source_dataset_detailed": "Pile_of_Law_founding_docs", "source_dataset_detailed_explanation": "Letters from U.S. founders.", "creation_year": 1730},
{"created_timestamp": "09-10-1730", "downloaded_timestamp": "10-18-2021", "url": "https://founders.archives.gov/API/docdata/Franklin/01-01-02-0053", "content": "Title: [Public Men, 10 September 1730]\nFrom: Franklin, Benjamin,Bysshe, Edward\nTo: \nAlthough the paragraph in the Gazette introducing this essay may be BF\u2019s, its entire text is taken, with unimportant excisions, from Edward Bysshe\u2019s translation of Xenophon\u2019s The Memorable Things of Socrates (London, 1712), pp. 107\u201314. Duane printed it in his edition of BF\u2019s writings (Works, IV, 401\u20135), as did Sparks and Bigelow; for its present exclusion see above, p. 170.", "culture": "English", "source_dataset": "Pile_of_Law", "source_dataset_detailed": "Pile_of_Law_founding_docs", "source_dataset_detailed_explanation": "Letters from U.S. founders.", "creation_year": 1730},
{"created_timestamp": "09-24-1730", "downloaded_timestamp": "10-18-2021", "url": "https://founders.archives.gov/API/docdata/Franklin/01-01-02-0054", "content": "Title: On Governor Belcher\u2019s Speech, 24 September 1730\nFrom: Franklin, Benjamin\nTo: \nIn our last we gave our Readers the most material Paragraphs of Governor Belcher\u2019s Speech to the Assembly of his other Government of New-Hampshire; and in our next shall insert his Speech at large to the Assembly of the Massachusetts, which we have by this Post. It may suffice at present to observe from it, that he has brought with him those very Instructions that occasion\u2019d the Difference between Governor Burnet and that People, which were what he went home commission\u2019d as Agent for the Country, to get withdrawn, as an intolerable Grievance. But by being at Court, it seems, he has had the advantage of seeing Things in another Light, and those Instructions do now appear to him highly consistent with the Privileges and Interest of the People, which before, as a Patriot, he had very different Notions of.", "culture": "English", "source_dataset": "Pile_of_Law", "source_dataset_detailed": "Pile_of_Law_founding_docs", "source_dataset_detailed_explanation": "Letters from U.S. founders.", "creation_year": 1730},
{"created_timestamp": "10-15-1730", "downloaded_timestamp": "10-18-2021", "url": "https://founders.archives.gov/API/docdata/Franklin/01-01-02-0055", "content": "Title: On Conversation, 15 October 1730\nFrom: Franklin, Benjamin\nTo: \nThe opinions expressed in this essay are exactly those Franklin is known to have held and which he set down in his autobiography and elsewhere. In addition the style and organization seem very like those of the young Franklin\u2014sometimes colloquial and anecdotal, always clear and competent, though not yet exhibiting that mastery of language and problems of structure which characterized his literary composition a few years later. For these reasons the present editors believe that Franklin probably wrote this piece.\n    Sic vita erat: facile omnes perferre, ac pati,\n    Cum quibus erat cumque una, iis sese dedere,\n    Eorum obsequi studiis, adversus nemini,\n    Numquam pr\u00e6ponens se aliis: ita facillime\n    Sine Invidia invenias laudem, et amicos pares.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ter.\nTo please in Conversation is an Art which all People believe they understand and practise, tho\u2019 most are ignorant or deficient in it. The Bounds and Manner of this Paper will not allow a regular and methodical Discourse on the Subject, and therefore I must beg Leave to throw my Thoughts together as they rise.\nThe two grand Requisites in the Art of Pleasing, are Complaisance and Good Nature. Complaisance is a seeming preference of others to our selves; and Good Nature a Readiness to overlook or excuse their Foibles, and do them all the Services we can. These two Principles must gain us their good Opinion, and make them fond of us for their own Sake, and then all we do or say will appear to the best Advantage, and be well accepted. Learning, Wit, and fine Parts, with these, shine in full Lustre, become wonderfully agreeable, and command Affection; but without them, only seem an Assuming over others, and occasion Envy and Disgust. The common Mistake is, that People think to please by setting themselves to View, and shewing their own Perfections, whereas the easier and more effectual Way lies quite contrary. Would you win the Hearts of others, you must not seem to vie with, but admire them: Give them every Opportunity of displaying their own Qualifications, and when you have indulg\u2019d their Vanity, they will praise you too in Turn, and prefer you above others, in order to secure to themselves the Pleasure your Commendation gives.\nBut above all, we should mark out those Things which cause Dislike, and avoid them with great Care. The most common amongst these is, talking overmuch, and robbing others of their Share of the Discourse. This is not only Incivility but Injustice, for every one has a natural Right to speak in turn, and to hinder it is an Usurpation of common Liberty, which never fails to excite Resentment. Beside, great Talkers usually leap from one thing to another with so much rapidity, and so ill a Connection, that what they say is a mere Chaos of Noise and Nonsense; tho\u2019 did they speak like Angels they still would be disagreeable. It is very pleasant when two of these People meet: the Vexation they both feel is visible in their Looks and Gestures; you shall see them gape and stare, and interrupt one another at every Turn, and watch with the utmost Impatience for a Cough or a Pause, when they may croud a Word in edgeways: neither hears nor cares what the other says; but both talk on at any Rate, and never fail to part highly disgusted with each other. I knew two Ladies, gifted this Way, who by Accident travelled in a Boat twenty Miles together, in which short Journey they were both so extreamly tired of one another, that they could never after mention each others Name with any Temper, or be brought in Company together, but retained a mutual Aversion which could never be worn out.\nThe contrary Fault to this, and almost as disobliging, is that of seeming wholly unconcerned in Conversation, and bearing no other Part in the Discourse than a No or Yes sometimes, or an Hem, or perhaps a Nod only. This Inattention and Indifference appears so like Disrespect, that it affronts the Desire we all possess of being taken Notice of and regarded, and makes the Company of those who practise it tiresome and insipid. Such is the Vanity of Mankind, that minding what others say is a much surer Way of pleasing them than talking well our selves.\nAnother Error very common and highly disagreeable, is to be ever speaking of our selves and our own Affairs. What is it to the Company we fall into whether we quarrel with our Servants, whether our Children are froward and dirty, or what we intend to have for Dinner to morrow? The Sauciness of a Negro, the Prattle of a Child, the spoiling a Suit of Cloaths, the Expences of Housekeeping, or the Preparation for a Journey, may be to ourselves Matters of great Importance, as they occasion us Pain or Pleasure; but wherein are Strangers concerned, or what Amusement can they possibly receive from such Accounts? Opposite to this, but not less troublesome, is the impertinent Inquisitiveness of some People which is ever prying into and asking ten thousand Questions about the Business of others. To search after and endeavour to discover Secrets, is an unpardonable Rudeness; but what makes this Disposition worse, it is usually attended with an ill-natur\u2019d, ungenerous, and mischievous Desire of exposing and aggravating the Mistakes and Infirmities of others. People of this Turn are the Pest of Society, and become both feared and hated. On these two Heads it may be useful always to remember, that we never ought to trouble People with more of our own Affairs than is needful for them to know, nor enquire farther into theirs than themselves think fit to tell us.\nStory-telling is another Mistake in Conversation, which should be avoided by all who intend to please. It is impossible to hear a long insipid trifling Tale, void of Wit or Humour, drawn in by Neck and Shoulders, and told meerly for the sake of talking, without being uneasy at it. Besides, People this way given are apt to tell the same String of Stories, with all their rambling Particulars, again and again over; without considering, that whatsoever Pleasure themselves may find in talking, their Hearers wish their Tongues out. Old Folks are most subject to this Error, which is one chief Reason their Company is so often shun\u2019d.\nAnother very disagreeable Error, is, a Spirit of Wrangling and Disputing, which some perpetually bring with them into Company: insomuch, that say whate\u2019er you will, they\u2019ll be sure to contradict you: and if you go about to give Reasons for your Opinion, however just they be, or however modestly propos\u2019d, you throw them into Rage and Passion. Though, perhaps, they are wholly unacquainted with the Affair, and you have made yourself Master of it, it is no Matter, the more ignorant they are you still find them the more positive, and what they want in Knowledge they endeavour to supply by Obstinacy, Noise and Fury: and when you press hard upon them, instead of Argument they fly to personal Reproaches and Invectives. Thus every Trifle becomes a serious Business, and such People are continually involved in Quarrels.\nRaillery is a part of Conversation, which to treat of fully would require a whole Paper; but now, I have only room to observe that it is highly entertaining or exceedingly disobliging, according as it is managed, and therefore we ought to use it with all the Caution possible. Natural Infirmities, unavoidable Misfortunes, Defects, or Deformities of any kind, should never be the Subject of it, for then it is not only impertinent, but affronting and inhuman. It\u2019s like Salt, a little of which in some Cases gives a Relish, but if thrown on by Handfuls, or sprinkled on things at random, it spoils all. Raillery supposes Wit; but agreeable as Wit is, when it takes a wrong Turn it becomes dangerous and mischievous. When Wit applies it self to search into, expose, and ridicule the Faults of others, it often inflicts a Wound that rankles in the Heart, and is never to be forgiven. To rally safely, and so as to please, it is requisite that we perfectly know our Company: it\u2019s not enough that we intend no Ill, we must be likewise certain what we say shall be taken as we intend it; otherwise, for the sake of a Jest we may lose a Friend, and make an inveterate Enemy. I shall say no more on this Head, but that we ought to use it sparingly; and whatever Opportunities may offer of shewing our Parts this way, so soon as any Body appears uneasy at it, and receives it with a grave Face, both Good Manners and Discretion advise to change the Subject for something else more harmless.\nAkin to Raillery, and what oftentimes goes along with it, is Scandal. But if People hereby think to gain Esteem, they unhappily are mistaken; for every Body (even those who hear them with a seeming Pleasure) considers them with a kind of Horror. No one\u2019s Reputation is safe against such Tongues: all in Turn may expect to suffer by them. Insensible of the Ties of Friendship, or the Sentiments of Humanity, such Creatures are mischievous as Bears or Tygers, and are as much abhorr\u2019d and fear\u2019d.\nThere are many more Mistakes which render People disagreeable in Conversation, but these are the most obvious; and whosoever avoids them carefully can never much displease. I shall only add, in a few Words, what are the most likely Means to make a Man be well accepted.\nLet his Air, his Manner, and Behaviour, be easy, courteous and Affable, void of every Thing haughty or assuming; his Words few, express\u2019d with Modesty, and a Respect for those he talks to. Be he ever ready to hear what others say; let him interrupt no Body, nor intrude with his Advice unask\u2019d. Let him never trouble other People about his own Affairs, nor concern himself with theirs. Let him avoid Disputes; and when he dissents from others propose his Reasons with Calmness and Complaisance. Be his Wit ever guided by Discretion and Good Nature, nor let him sacrifice a Friend to raise a Laugh. Let him not censure others, nor expose their Failings, but kindly excuse or hide them. Let him neither raise nor propagate a Story to the Prejudice of any Body. In short, be his Study to command his own Temper, to learn the Humours of Mankind, and to conform himself accordingly.", "culture": "English", "source_dataset": "Pile_of_Law", "source_dataset_detailed": "Pile_of_Law_founding_docs", "source_dataset_detailed_explanation": "Letters from U.S. founders.", "creation_year": 1730},
{"created_timestamp": "01-06-1730", "downloaded_timestamp": "10-18-2021", "url": "https://founders.archives.gov/API/docdata/Franklin/01-01-02-0057", "content": "Title: Extracts from the Gazette, 1730\nFrom: Franklin, Benjamin\nTo: \n\tAbout the End of next Month, a Course of Papers of Speculation and Amusement will begin to be inserted in this Gazette, for the Entertainment of our Readers. Those Gentlemen and others, who may be inclined to divert themselves or their Friends by trying their Hands in some little Performance of that Nature, are hereby invited to make use of this Opportunity; and whatever they send, (to be left at the Publishers) that is fit for publick View, will be kindly received, and communicated in the most proper Time and Manner. [January 6]\n\tThis is to inform the Writer of A certain Letter, giving a certain Account of a late certain Difference between a certain \u2014\u2014 and his Wife, with certain Animadversions upon their Conduct, &c. That, for certain charitable Reasons, the said Letter is at present thought not fit to be published. [January 27]\n\t  The same Day [Saturday last] an unhappy Man one Sturgis, upon some Difference with his Wife, determined to drown himself in the River; and she, (kind Wife) went with him, it seems, to see it faithfully performed, and accordingly stood by silent and unconcerned during the whole Transaction: He jump\u2019d in near Carpenter\u2019s Wharff, but was timely taken out again, before what he came about was thoroughly effected, so that they were both obliged to return home as they came, and put up for that Time with the Disappointment. [February 10]\n\t  Last Week some counterfeit Five Shilling Bills of our Currency were passed here; but as they were clumsily done, upon mean Letter and ordinary Paper, and very unlike the Originals, they were soon discovered, and trac\u2019d to One who was lately in Town from New-Castle. Orders are sent down to examine him about them. It is supposed they are come from the old Quarter; tho\u2019 \u2019tis surprising that a Course of ill Success is not a sufficient Discouragement to such Practices. [February 19]\n\t  The great Snow we had here, was so much greater in New-England, as to prevent all Travelling on the Roads for a considerable Time; so that the Eastern Post was not come in to York last Thursday; and therefore our Post who waited there for him, is not yet arrived here, tho\u2019 he had been expected on Friday Night last. Upon this Account the Publication of our Paper has been so long delayed [two days]. [February 19]\n[Advertisement] Newydd ei Argraphu ac ar werth yn yr Argraphdy Newydd, gyferbyn a\u2019r Farchnad yn Philadelphia.\nCa\u2019n yn dangos Truenus hanes, Ma\u2019b a Merch, y modd y darfu i\u2019r Ferch Dorri ei Haddewid ag \u00eaf, yr hyn a barodd iddo adel ei Dylwyth, a myned ymmaith: a\u2019i d\u00f4st Alar o achos ei Rhieni hi.\nFe a wnaeth y G\u00e2n ei h\u00fbn ac ai gadawodd wrth fyned Ymmaith gyda ei h\u00ean Gyfeillion, er Cyngor iddynt hwy ac eraill i beidio a rhoddi eu Bryd ar bethau \u2019r Byd hwn: Mae yu dangos drwy \u2019r cyfan ei b\u00fbr Gariad at y Ferch; ai sawr Barch a gobaith yn ei Jachawdwr, ai w\u00eer Gariad i\u2019r Grefydd Gristianogol. Pr\u00ees 3d.\nYn yr vn Fan y mae ar Werth Cyfraith yr I\u00e2r a\u2019r Mynawyd, rhwng Sion ac Eynion, o Waith Dafydd Manuel. Pr\u00ees 4d.\nYn yr vn Lle y gall y n\u00eab a chwennycho, gael Argraphu, yn Gymraeg neu Saefneg yn Dda, ac o weddol Br\u00ees: Ac hefyd Rhwymo h\u00ean Lyfrau yn Dda, ac ar Br\u00ees Gweddol. [March 13]\n\t  When Mr. Bradford publishes after us, and has Occasion to take an Article or two out of the Gazette, which he is always welcome to do, he is desired not to date his Paper a Day before ours, (as last Week in the Case of the Letter containing Kelsey\u2019s Speech, &c.) lest distant Readers should imagine we take from him, which we always carefully avoid. [March 19]\nNext Week will be Published, The Votes and Proceedings of the Honourable House of Representatives. Printed and Sold at the New Printing-Office near the Market.\nThe Laws enacted at the last Session are also in the Press, and will be published with Expedition, and sold at the same Place. [March 19]\n\t  [Advertisement] A Likely Negroe Woman to be Sold. Enquire at the Widow Read\u2019s in Market-Street, Philadelphia. [April 9]\n\t  On Friday Night last, about 11 o\u2019Clock, a Fire broke out in a Store near Mr. Fishbourn\u2019s Wharff, and before it could be master\u2019d consumed all the Stores, &c. on the Wharff, damaged several Houses on that Side the Street, and crossing the Way, seized the fine House of Mr. J. Dickinson, with two other Houses adjoining towards Walnut-street, which are all ruined. The Loss in the Whole is supposed to be four or five Thousand Pounds. It is thought that if the People had been provided with good Engines and other suitable Instruments, the Fire might easily have been prevented spreading, as there was but little Wind. There is now a Subscription on Foot for supplying the Town with every Thing necessary of that Nature, which meets with great Encouragement. There was much Thieving at the Fire, and several ill Persons are now in Prison on that Account. [April 30]\n\t  We hear from New-England, that the Small-Pox spreads in divers parts of the Country. There is an Account published of the Number of Persons inoculated in Boston in the Month of March, amounting to Seventy-two; of which two only died, and the rest have recovered perfect Health. Of those who had it in the common Way, \u2019tis computed that one in four died. Several Hundreds have been inoculated, and but about four in the Hundred have died under Inoculation; and even those are supposed to have first taken the Infection in the common Way. [May 14]\n\t  [Advertisement] James Austin\u2019s Persian Ink, approved of by the properest Judges in England to be the best of any yet made; Sold only at the New Printing-Office in Philadelphia, at 12d. per Bottle. [June 23]\n\t  Some of our last Papers were wrought off with the following Transposition. In the 2d Column of the 2d Page, that which is properly the 6th Line is placed as the 9th, so that what is now the 9th Line must be read as the 6th, in order to make Sense of that Part of the Paragraph. The judicious Reader will easily distinguish accidental Errors from the Blunders of Ignorance, and more readily excuse the former which sometimes happen unavoidably. [July 2]\n\t  N.B. Tho\u2019 we have the Pleasure to observe that these Essays of Primitive Christianity are exceedingly acceptable to the generality of our Readers; yet we are concern\u2019d to hear that some worthy and learned Men are dissatisfied with them, as believing them to contain sundry false, heretical and pernicious Positions and Opinions: If such Gentlemen who think these Papers hurtful, are inclined to write any Thing by way of Answer, to manifest the Weakness and Error of the Doctrine contained therein; this may inform them, that any Thing of that Kind will be thankfully received, and faithfully handed to the Publick in the Gazette, without putting the Author to one Penny Charge; provided the Answer to each Essay be not much longer than the Essay it self. [July 30]\n\t  From Woodbury Creek on the other Side of the River we hear, that on Sunday Night last a Servant Man belonging to one Tatcham, got out of Bed at Midnight, and telling a Lad who slept with him that he was going a long Journey and should never see him more, he went into the Orchard and hanged himself on a Tree: But it seems the Rope broke in the Operation, and towards Morning he found himself alive upon the Ground to his no small Surprize. He then went and hid himself in the Barn among some Straw, for several Hours, while his Master and the rest of the Family were searching and enquiring after him to no Effect. At length having procured a better Rope, he hanged himself again in the Barn, and was there accidentally found by the Maid in the Afternoon: When he was cut down there appeared no sign of Life in him, nor were any Means used to recover him; but by that Time the Coroner and his Inquest were got together and come to View his Body, he was upon his Legs again, and is now living. [August 27]\n\t  Just Published: Jerman\u2019s Almanacks for the Year 1731. Containing, beside what is usual, a correct Table of Houses for the Latitude of Forty Degrees, which has been much desired by the Ingenious. Printed and Sold at the New Printing-Office near the Market. [October 15]\n\t  Just Published: Godfrey\u2019s Almanacks for the Year 1731. Done on a large Sheet of Demi Paper, after the London manner. Containing the Eclipses, Lunations, Judgment of the Weather, the Time of the Sun\u2019s Rising and Setting, Moon\u2019s Rising and Setting, Seven Stars Rising, Southing and Setting, Time of Highwater, Fairs, Courts, and Observable Days. With several other Things useful and curious. Printed and sold at the New-Printing-Office near the Market. [October 29]\n\t  \u2042During the three Winter Months, while the Post performs his Stage but once a Fortnight; This Paper will be published on Tuesdays. And as the Winter generally Occasions a Scarcity of News in these Parts; and it being very little Satisfaction to the Reader to have a whole Sheet, when half of it must be fill\u2019d with Trifles, or Things of small Consequence; we shall for the above Time publish it in half Sheets, which we doubt not will be equally entertaining. [December 3]\n\t  (*\u2020*)It is now above 14 Months since we undertook the Publishing this Paper; Those Subscribers who have taken it a Year, are desired to send in their respective Payments. [December 8]\n[Advertisement] Ralph Sandiford being bound for England, hath printed a Second Impression of his Negroe Treatise to be distributed by him Gratis, or by Matthias Aspdin his Attorney; unto whom all Persons indebted to him are desired to pay the same with Speed, to prevent Charge to themselves.\nAnd whereas some Persons would not apply for his Books Gratis, the Printer having Leave from the Author, has them ready for Sale at 12d. a-piece, at the New Printing-Office near the Market.\n[December 22]\nBuried in the several Burying-Grounds of this City from December 30, 1729. to December 29, 1730.\nChurch\nBaptists\nQuakers\nStrangers\nWhites\nPresbyterians\nBlacks\nIn all 227.\n[December 29]\n\tJust Published: The Laws made the last Session of the late Assembly, relating to Wears and Damms in Skuylkill, and to the Trustees of the Loan-Office. Printed and sold at the New Printing-Office near the Market. Price Six-Pence. Where may be had, Latin Grammars, and Dyche\u2019s Spelling-Books. [December 29]\nPhiladelphia : Printed by B. Franklin and H. Meredith, at the New Printing-Office near the Market, where Advertisements are taken in, and all Persons may be supplied with this Paper, at Ten Shillings a Year.", "culture": "English", "source_dataset": "Pile_of_Law", "source_dataset_detailed": "Pile_of_Law_founding_docs", "source_dataset_detailed_explanation": "Letters from U.S. founders.", "creation_year": 1730}
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