Accounting of Benjamin Franklin’s Share in the Walpole Company
AD: American Philosophical Society
<May 12, 1772: “Benjamin Franklin Esq., for his Proportion
of Expences and Charges incurred from June 1769 to May 1772, on the
Application to the Crown for a Grant of Lands on the River Ohio in
North America.” He had paid £5 5s. in cash on November 6,
1769, and £25 on November 27, 1771. The charge for one share at £44
3s. 4d., dated May 2, 1772, left a balance due to
Samuel Wharton and William Trent of £13 18s. 4d. Trent
acknowledged receipt of this balance on May 12, 1772, in full
settlement of the account.>
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