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Benjamin Franklin

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Associated Documents
(16 total)
  • Recruiting suspended during winter as cost saving measure
  • Depositing unissued certificates
  • Justices of the Peace of Luzerne Have No Copies of the Laws of the State
  • Return of the Troops, Resignation and Nomination
  • Regading examination of claims of Connecticut settlers in Luzerne County Pennsylvania
  • Commission of Colonel Butler and claims of inhabitants at Tioga
  • On general measures to preserve the peace between the states
  • Raising of Pennsylvania troops to replace those on frontiers
  • Return of Pennsylvania troops in service of United States
  • Cited letter or document, Benjamin Franklin to Henry Knox
  • Rank Dispute between Captains Zeigler and Ferguson; Augmentation of Troops
  • Pennsylvania recruiting quotas and appointments of commissioned officers
  • Regarding the ruffians who captured Pickering
  • Pickering released by band of ruffians
  • Regarding the pursuit of the men who apprehended Pickering
  • Report on insurrections in Pennsylvania and rewards for apprehending ruffians who seized Pickering as prisoner

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