475 | To Michael Francklin

    Boston June 17, 1766

    Sr

    I take this opportunity to condole you on the loss of Govr Wilmot, & at the same time should have been glad to have congratulated you on your having taken the reins of Goverment: I hope it will not be long before that occasion will offer.

    1

    I have just now received a letter from London which enables me to speak with more certainty of the intended augmentation of our Partnership & property in the Bay of St. Croix.

    2 The Persons to be added are John Tucker Esqr. Member of Parliament for Weymouth
    3 & Benjamin Francklin Esqr of Philadelphia: They are to procure Warrants for 20,000 acres each. I should be glad to have those laid out on the North side the River Schoodick or Passimaquoddy to the Mouth thereof including the Island called Deer Island & Passimaquoddy Island, if it well may be, or at least the former of them I apprehend contain about 8,000 acres each, which will leave 24,000 acres to be laid out on the Continent, which according to Mr Morris’s Account will run us into broken & rough land.

    I expect that these warrants will be made out as soon as the Parliamentary business will allow.

    4 Perhaps this caution is unnecessary after what you wrote me before. But as there has been an alteration in the Goverment which was not expected, I thought it not improper to add this intimation to my former.

    I am &c

    The Honble M[r] Franklin Esqr

    L, LbC      BP, 5: 184-185.