As the Proprietaries of Pensilvania think it highly probable,
that the House of Representatives, on sending over their Agent, may
have charged him with some Applications to the Crown, for Aid or
Assistance; Their Concern, for the Safety of the Inhabitants,
obliges them to inform the Agent, that they are ready and very
desirous, (notwithstanding any Difference in Opinion, in some
Matters, which, it’s hoped, will soon be adjusted) to use their
utmost Endeavours to promote any such Application.
Dated this 23d. Day of November 1757.
To Benjamin Franklin Esqr., Agent to the House of Representatives
of Pensilvania.
23d. November 1757. Left an exact Copy of the above (which Copy was
signed by Mr. Paris and was enclosed in a Blank sealed Cover, and
directed, To Benjamin Franklin Esqr.) at Mr. Franklin’s Lodgings,
in Craven Street, at the House of Mrs. Stephens, with one Mrs.
Sparrow, who say’d she was a Relation of the said Mrs. Stephens and
lived there, and would take particular Care to let Mr. Franklin
have it, as soon as he came Home (Neither Mr. Franklin, or his Son,
being, as she sayd, within)