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married to Miss Stevenson in 1770. Hewson received the Copley medal in 1769 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1770. (Dictionary of National Biography, XXVI, 312-3.)]
[Footnote 78: Daughter of Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, who wrote A Speech Intended to have been Spoken on the Bill for Altering the Charters of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay. New York. Ed. 1774. (Cf. Writings, I, 164-6.) Urging that "the true art of government consists in NOT GOVERNING TOO MUCH" (cited in Parton, op. cit., I, 549), Shipley lent sanction to colonial resistance. Franklin writes to Thomas Cushing (London, Oct. 6, 1774): "The Bishop of St. Asaph's intended speech, several Copies of which I send you, and of which many Thousands have been printed and distributed here has had an extraordinary Effect, in changing the Sentiments of Multitudes with regard to America" (Writings, VI, 250).
Mungo was a "fine large grey Squirrel" which Deborah sent to her husband (ibid., VI, 16).]
[Footnote 79: Printed in Experiments and Observations on Electricity. London, 1769.]
[Footnote 80: Printed in Éphémérides du Citoyen (edited by Dupont after 1767), periodical of the French Physiocrats; and in the London Chronicle in 1766.]
[Footnote 81: J. Parton observes that this brilliant illustration of Franklin's use of Swiftian hoax and irony "was the nine-days' talk of the kingdom" (op. cit., I, 518).]
[Footnote 82: See R. M. Bache, in Bibliography. In addition, article in New York Times, Dec. 3, 1896, and notes in E. P. Buckley's "The Library of a Philadelphia Antiquarian," Magazine of American History, XXIV, 388-98 (1890). Mr. Buckley reviews the making of the prayer book; "Column after column of the calendar disappeared with a single stroke of the pen--nearly the whole of the Exhortation, a portion of the Confession, all the Absolution, nearly all the Venite, exultemus Domino. Likewise, the Te Deum, and all the Canticle. Of the Creed all he retained was the following: 'I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and Earth, and in Jesus Christ His Son our Lord. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the forgiveness of sins, and the life everlasting, Amen'" (ibid., 393). Franklin collaborated with Lord Le Despencer in this work. For Franklin's own comments see Writings, IX, 358-9, 556. Smyth brackets parts of the Preface found in an incomplete MS draft.]
[Footnote 83: Date unknown. For history of this hoax see Writings, I, 179-81, and L. S. Livingston, Benjamin Franklin's Parable against Persecution*. *With an Account of the Early Editions (Cambridge, Mass., 1916).]
[Footnote 84: Date unknown.]
[Footnote 85: This letter was never sent.]
[Footnote 86: A. H. Smyth thinks that the friend might have been David Hartley.]
[Footnote 87: A photostat in the W. S. Mason Collection from the Huntington Library gives the date as July 20, 1776.]
[Footnote 88: Time and place of first publication unknown. For an interesting discussion of this piece, see M. C. Tyler's Literary History of the American Revolution, II, 367-80. "A British magazine of 1786, says that there was then a transfer made at the Bank of England of £471,000 to Mr. Van Otten on account of the Landgrave of Hesse, for so much due for Hessian soldiers lost in the American war, at £30 a head, thus making the total number lost to be 15,700 men." (Cited in J. F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1857, II, 294.)]