Benjamin Franklin and John Foxcroft: Tables of Rates of Postage
Broadside: New Jersey Historical Society
[1763]
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North-America, as establish’d by Act of Parliament in the
Ninth |
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Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, Entitled, An |
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Act for Establishing a General Post-Office, for all Her
Majesty’s |
Rated in Penny-weights and Grains of Silver, at
Three-Pence Sterling for each Penny-weight. [Here
follow the tables described in the headnote.] Explanation.
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Post-Office to another, viz. by the Figure, or
Figures, set down |
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at the Angle of Meeting, or in the Square which points to
both |
Example.
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Look in the Table for New-York, and thence carry your
Eye |
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strait down until it comes opposite to Williamsburg, and in
that |
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Point of Meeting you’ll find [5] which is Five Penny-weight
of |
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Silver, for the Port of a Single Letter between those Two
Offices. |
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Double Letters, and trebled for all Treble Letters, and for
every |
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Ounce Weight Four times as much must be charged as is
here |
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the Rates set down in these Tables, with 16 Grains Weight
of |
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Silver, for such as are received from on Board; and with 8
Grains |
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Weight, for such as are directed on Board any Ship or
Vessel: |
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And the whole Postage of these last Sort, must be paid down
at |
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the Post-Office where such Letters and Packets are
delivered in. |
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Road, and for all Expresses sent from any Stage to any
Place out |
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of the Post Road, there must be charged and paid One
Penny- |
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weight of Silver for every Mile such Express shall be
sent. |
Note, In the above Tables, the several Places are ranged as they
lye in the Course or present Route of the Post.
Woodbridge:
Printed by James Parker, by Order of the
Post-Master
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General: Note, These Tables are to be pasted on a Board,
and hung |
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up in open View, in the most convenient Place in each
respective Post- |