Collection Title: Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457) / Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Creator:: From the Collection: Mason, William Smith, 1866-
Published / Created:: 1717 June 21
Call Number:: GEN MSS 1457
Container / Volume:: Box 1, folder 4
Image Count:: 15
Description:: M #4004
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457) > Series I: Materials by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin > A short account of the family of Thomas Franklin

Creator:: From the Collection: Mason, William Smith, 1866-
Published / Created:: 1744 March 27
Call Number:: GEN MSS 1457
Container / Volume:: Box 63 (Oversize), folder 2296
Image Count:: 2
Description:: Written on printed broadside: A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America (Philadelphia: 1743 May 14). (Includes photographic negative of the printed text.)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457) > Series I: Materials by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin > Bartram, John: letter to Cadwallader Colden

Creator:: From the Collection: Mason, William Smith, 1866-
Published / Created:: 1782 October 1
Call Number:: GEN MSS 1457
Container / Volume:: Box 67 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 2
Description:: Signed also by Henry Laurens and John Adams in 1783. With seals of Franklin, Laurens, and Adams. M #551
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457) > Series I: Materials by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin > Benjamin Franklin, John Jay: document appointing William T. Franklin as Secretary to the American Commission negotiating a peace treaty

Creator:: From the Collection: Mason, William Smith, 1866-
Published / Created:: 1784
Call Number:: GEN MSS 1457
Container / Volume:: Box 34, folder 2140
Image Count:: 22
Description:: M #598. Smyth VIII, 603 (attributed by Smith to 1782). Phillipps MS 26198. Endorsed by William Upcott as "the original rough draft in his own handwriting."
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457) > Series I: Materials by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin > Benjamin Franklin: "Information respecting America." Autograph manuscript.

Creator:: From the Collection: Mason, William Smith, 1866-
Published / Created:: circa 1727
Call Number:: GEN MSS 1457
Container / Volume:: Box 32, folder 2128
Image Count:: 1
Description:: M #1508
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457) > Series I: Materials by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin > Benjamin Franklin: Epitaph

Creator:: From the Collection: Mason, William Smith, 1866-
Published / Created:: circa 1727
Call Number:: GEN MSS 1457
Container / Volume:: Box 1, folder 9-10
Image Count:: 2
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457) > Series I: Materials by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin > Benjamin Franklin: Epitaph (includes photostatic copies, facsimiles, and correspondence regarding)

Creator:: From the Collection: Mason, William Smith, 1866-
Published / Created:: 1773 July 14
Call Number:: GEN MSS 1457
Container / Volume:: Box 9, folder 525
Image Count:: 3
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457) > Series I: Materials by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin > Benjamin Franklin: letter to Benjamin Rush; London

Creator:: From the Collection: Mason, William Smith, 1866-
Published / Created:: 1778 July 6
Call Number:: GEN MSS 1457
Container / Volume:: Box 13, folder 803
Image Count:: 9
Description:: M #493, not in Smyth
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457) > Series I: Materials by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin > Benjamin Franklin: letter to all captains of armed vessels, safe conduct for William Gray (includes typed transcript and manuscript copy); Passy

Creator:: From the Collection: Mason, William Smith, 1866-
Published / Created:: 1768 August 16
Call Number:: GEN MSS 1457
Container / Volume:: Box 7, folder 381
Image Count:: 1
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457) > Series I: Materials by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin > Deborah Franklin: letter to Richard and Sarah Bache (manuscript copy); Philadelphia

Creator:: From the Collection: Mason, William Smith, 1866-
Published / Created:: 1770 November 7- 1775 May 5
Call Number:: GEN MSS 1457
Container / Volume:: Box 33, folder 2133
Image Count:: 21
Description:: Memoir written later than the dates covered in the text. "These rough journals are memoranda made by my father, General Jonathan Williams, and found among his papers--they were collected, arranged, and bound by his son, Henry J. Williams, Philadelphia 1871."
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457) > Series I: Materials by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin > Jonathan Williams: "Journal of Josiah and Jonathan Williams, 7 November 1770 to 5 May 1775." Manuscript volume.

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