TOPICS

• Genesis of Free Franking Privileges
• Presentation covers following examples
• Pre Independence Examples
• 1739-41: Jonathan Belcher, Governor of Massachusetts Bay
• 1761: President Colden, General Assembly of Colony of New York
• Post Independence: Military Mail
• 1777-78: General Smallwood (Later Governor of Maryland)
• 1778: Jer. Powell President of Council of Chambers, State of Massachusetts to Brigadier Oliver Prescott, Groton, Mass.
• To be presented in upcoming MPHS article centered on colonial militias
• 1778: Charles Petit Secretary to Governor of NJ
• 1779: Colonel George Letter
• 1780: James Sutton, Board of War, Philadelphia
• 1785: Timothy Pickering Quarter Master General, Sec of War, Post Master General, and Secretary of State