1John Bondfield to the Commissioners, 8 September 1778 (Adams Papers)
French Navy and Amer. Independence
2John Langdon to the Commissioners, 21 October 1778 (Adams Papers)
...principal agent for the company that supplied masts to the French Navy.
3From John Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 6 December 1780 (Adams Papers)
French Navy and Amer. Independence
4To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Kalm, 6 August 1749 (Franklin Papers)
...of the bureau of maps and plans of the French Navy, and in 1750–54 was one of the...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 10 June[–2 July 1776] (Franklin Papers)
Dull, French Navy, pp. 6–9, 31–3, 36–7,...
The French navy was far from ready. The British, nevertheless, were... .... Dull,French Navy...
7The American Commissioners to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 17[–22] January 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...were actually being made were less impressive; see Dull, French Navy, pp. 63–4.
8To Benjamin Franklin from the Chevalier de Brus, 6 May 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...June 1 Bruslé, a surgeon in the French navy, inquires from Paris whether Franklin is...
9William 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.
10Conrad-Alexandre Gérard to the American Commissioners, 5 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...1 (Philadelphia, 1982), pp. 29–32, and French Navy, pp. 83–101.