These datasets are created from a volume of 372 pages that records receipt and dispatch of all mail in the Philadelphia Post Office between May 25, 1748 and July 23, 1752. Deliveries into the Post Office from out of town were listed, letter by letter, by the names of the addressees, weight and amount due, paid or free. Outgoing mail was simply listed by number of sheets and weight, not by individual letters. The data is presented here in two sets, one for incoming and one for outgoing.
The records were kept during Benjamin Franklin's tenure as Postmaster of Philadelphia.
These datasets are created from a volume of 372 pages that records receipt and dispatch of all mail in the Philadelphia Post Office between May 25, 1748 and July 23, 1752. Deliveries into the Post Office from out of town were listed, letter by letter, by the names of the addressees, weight and amount due, paid or free. Outgoing mail was simply listed by number of sheets and weight, not by individual letters. The data is presented here in two sets, one for incoming and one for outgoing.
The records were kept during Benjamin Franklin's tenure as Postmaster of Philadelphia.
The documentation for BF85f6-12 contains descriptive metadata regarding the datasets and their source material. Also included is version information, normalization steps taken, related datasets, usage license details, preferred citation, and attribution of labor.
These printed forms were filled in in manuscript and list the letters received from other colonial post offices or from ships in the Philadelphia Post Office by Postmaster Thomas Foxcroft. The records were kept during Benjamin Franklin's tenure as Postmaster of Philadelphia.; Dataset A of BF85f6-30 contains the bulk of the data derived from this book. Each row has been assigned a numerical ID to allow sorting while preserving the data's context.
"Post Office Accounts" May 18, 1748, is the continuation of the above ledger [Philadelphia Post Office Record Book No. 3, B F85f6.11c]. It contains 68 unnumbered pages. Per the Franklin Papers (vol. II, p. 180-181), "the amounts owed by each [name-entry] correspond[s] to the subtotals entered in May 1748 in the ledger described above as No. 2 [B F85f6.11b, Philadelphia Post Office Ledger, No.2]."; Dataset C of BF85f6-12 contains calculations of individual transactions for several of the account holders that appear in the the book in Dataset A. These entries were recorded on paper strips pasted into the volume at page 64.
These printed forms were filled in in manuscript and list the letters received from other colonial post offices or from ships in the Philadelphia Post Office by Postmaster Thomas Foxcroft. The records were kept during Benjamin Franklin's tenure as Postmaster of Philadelphia.; Dataset B of BF85f6-30 consists of totals by category and weight, written at the bottom of each page of the volume. This data was separated from Dataset A during the transcription process.
"Post Office Accounts drawn out Nov. 1743" [Post Office Record Book No. 3] is a small volume of ca. 50 pages. It contains a list of names with amounts due with notes as to letters delivered, paid, etc. The names are abstracted from Post Office Ledger, No. 2 [B F85f6.11b].; Dataset A of BF85f6-11c contains the bulk of the data derived from this book. Each row has been assigned a numerical ID to allow sorting while preserving the data's context.
"Post Office Accounts drawn out Nov. 1743" [Post Office Record Book No. 3] is a small volume of ca. 50 pages. It contains a list of names with amounts due with notes as to letters delivered, paid, etc. The names are abstracted from Post Office Ledger, No. 2 [B F85f6.11b].; Dataset B of BF85f6-12 consists of page totals by Pounds, Shillings, and Pence owed, written at the bottom of each page of the volume. This data was separated from Dataset A during the data cleaning process.
"Post Office Accounts drawn out Nov. 1743" [Post Office Record Book No. 3] is a small volume of ca. 50 pages. It contains a list of names with amounts due with notes as to letters delivered, paid, etc. The names are abstracted from Post Office Ledger, No. 2 [B F85f6.11b].
"Post Office Accounts" May 18, 1748, is the continuation of the above ledger [Philadelphia Post Office Record Book No. 3, B F85f6.11c]. It contains 68 unnumbered pages. Per the Franklin Papers (vol. II, p. 180-181), "the amounts owed by each [name-entry] correspond[s] to the subtotals entered in May 1748 in the ledger described above as No. 2 [B F85f6.11b, Philadelphia Post Office Ledger, No.2]."; Dataset A of BF85f6-12 contains the bulk of the data derived from this book. Each row has been assigned a numerical ID to allow sorting while preserving the data's context.
"Post Office Accounts" May 18, 1748, is the continuation of the above ledger [Philadelphia Post Office Record Book No. 3, B F85f6.11c]. It contains 68 unnumbered pages. Per the Franklin Papers (vol. II, p. 180-181), "the amounts owed by each [name-entry] correspond[s] to the subtotals entered in May 1748 in the ledger described above as No. 2 [B F85f6.11b, Philadelphia Post Office Ledger, No.2]."; Dataset B of BF85f6-12 consists of page totals by Pounds, Shillings, and Pence owed, written at the bottom of each page of the volume. This data was separated from Dataset A during the transcription process.
"This is the first of two volumes of manuscript tables recording daily weather and other data, such as notes on plant sowing, harvesting, bird migration, and other seasonal phenomena at James Madison's plantation, Montpelier. Some notes are in Dolley Madison's hand."; This dataset contains the information from volume 1 (1784- 1788) and is fully interoperable with Mss5515M26-02 (1789-1793). The manuscript entries were originally transcribed into database/tabular form by Dr. Daniel Druckenbrod. His organization scheme and annotations remain in the columns 'Druckenbrod Sort ID' and 'Druckenbrod Notes'. With the permission of Dr. Druckenbrod, these datasets were reviewed, edited, and restructured when necessary to ensure interoperability with similar datasets being created at UVA from Thomas Jefferson's weather records. Specific alterations are noted in the "Normalization and Data Standards" section of the documentation. These changes as well as other notes from the process at APS are found in each dataset's 'APS Notes' column.
"This is the second of two volumes of manuscript tables recording daily weather and other data, such as notes on plant sowing, harvesting, bird migration, and other seasonal phenomena at James Madison's plantation, Montpelier. Some notes are in Dolley Madison's hand."; This dataset contains the information from volume 2 (1789-1793) and is fully interoperable with Mss5515M26-01 (1784-1788). The manuscript entries were originally transcribed into database/tabular form by Dr. Daniel Druckenbrod. His organization scheme and annotations remain in the columns 'Druckenbrod Sort ID' and 'Druckenbrod Notes'. With the permission of Dr. Druckenbrod, these datasets were reviewed, edited, and restructured when necessary to ensure interoperability with similar datasets being created at UVA from Thomas Jefferson's weather records. Specific alterations are noted in the "Normalization and Data Standards" section of the documentation file. These changes as well as other notes from the process at APS are found in each dataset's 'APS Notes' column.
