1William Bingham to the American Commissioners, 28 November 1777[–4 December 1777] (Franklin Papers)
...join the Franco-American alliance the following spring. Dull, French Navy, pp. 81, 94–5.
2Conrad-Alexandre Gérard to the American Commissioners, 5 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...1 (Philadelphia, 1982), pp. 29–32, and French Navy, pp. 83–101.
3Intelligence from Brest, 12 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
, Feb. 1; Dull, French Navy, pp. 96 n, 102 n....Deane and his dispatches: Dull, French Navy,...
4Gérard to the American Commissioners, 17 March 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...French Ambassador was ordered home from London. See Dull, French Navy, pp. 103–5.
5John Paul Jones to the American Commissioners, 4 April 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...She was new, and of only 26 guns: Dull, French Navy, p. 357.
French Navy and Amer. Independence
7Simeon Deane to the Commissioners, 16 April 1778 (Adams Papers)
French Navy and Amer. Independence
8John Paul Jones to the Commissioners, 9 May 1778 (Adams Papers)
French Navy and Amer. Independence
9Francis Coffyn to the Commissioners, 19 June 1778 (Adams Papers)
French Navy and Amer. Independence
10John Bondfield to the American Commissioners, 23 June 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...what Britain would offer Spain to remain neutral: Dull, French Navy, p. 114.