Documents on the Hearing of William Smith’s Petition
AD: New York Public Library.

Mr. Hamilton late Governor of Pensilvania, will probably be present, as he was the first Night. He might be ask’d

Whether Mr. Franklin was not always very zealous for the Defence of that Province?

Whether he has known or heard of any Inhabitant of that Country that was more so?

Whether Mr. Franklin was not always among the foremost in pressing the Quaker Assembly to grant large Sums of Money for that purpose?

Whether he Mr. Hamilton ever heard of any Resentment they had against Mr. Franklin, or Malice they bore him on that Account?

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