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Ben Franklin asks to resign...
Ben Franklin asks to resign...
Item # 673960
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April 22, 1783
THE LONDON CHRONICLE, April 22, 1783 Page 3 has a brief item: "Dr. Franklin has written to Congress requesting permission to resign his public employment, 'the business being too weighty for his old shoulders'. Such was the Doctor's expression."
Page 7 is mostly taken up with: "American News" which talks of ships leaving the colonies, concerns of New Yorkers with paying their taxes, the capture of various ships, a report of an expedition up the Mohawk River to "...surprize and reduce the British post at Oswego..." with more on this.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, 9 by 12 inches, very nice condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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