301To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 23 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
, 30, was built in 1763: Dull, French Navy, p. 356. John Paul Jones had sought to...
302To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 5 March 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...-Simon Boutin (1719–1794) for the expenses of the French navy in America:
303Pay Book of the State Company of Artillery, [1777] (Hamilton Papers)
At a certain period the French navy consisted of 115 sail of the line from 1st to...