List of Persons to Whom Passes Have Been Given, [5 January – 3 October 1782]
List of Persons to Whom Passes Have Been Given5
D:6 American Philosophical Society
[January 5–October 3, 1782]
| List of Persons to whom Passes have been given in the Year 1782. | |||
| Names. | where going to | Date | |
| Henry Wyld7 | Ostende | 5. Jan. 82. | |
| Robert Gray | L’Orient | Do | |
| Aaron Dexter8 & Thos Winthrop |
 |
Nantes & L’Orient | Do |
| Benj. Parker & Jos. Winthrop |
|
Nantes & L’Orient | Do— |
| Isaac Smith, Bellimy Kan, & Alexr Thomas. |
|
Nantes & L’Orient | Do.— |
| Capt. Silas Talbot.9 | Nantes | Do | |
| Gurdon Bill | Do— | 6 Jan. 82 | |
| John Hunt | Ostende— | 7 Do— | |
| Isaac Brown. | Nantes | 9. Do | |
| William Moran,1 | |
Nantes | 14 Jany 82 |
| Jesse Breed, | |||
| Andrew Floyd, | |||
| Ephraim Wales, | |||
| Robt. Smallpiece, | |||
| Alexr. Ore, | |||
| James Hamilton & | |||
| Edward Harper. | |||
| Thomas Munro | |
Nantes | 22 Jany 1782 |
| Peter Price | |||
| John Cowin | |||
| Uzal Woodruff | |||
| Robert Haddock | |
Nantes & L’Orient | 16. Feby.1782 |
| Joseph Veeseley | |||
| Theodore Hopkins2 | |
Nantes | 31. Mars 1782 |
| George Harrison | |||
| Mr. Searle | Nantes & Bordeaux | 3. Avril 1782. | |
| Saml. Smidley | Amsterdam | 11. Avril 1 | |
| Moses Young | Ostende | 14. Avril 1782. | |
| Courtauld | Brest | Do. | |
| Myers | Amsterdam. | Do. | |
| Chever | Do | 21. Do | |
| Mr. Ridley | Do | 5 May 82 | |
| Mess Rawle et Walker | Ostende | 8 Do | |
| Mess Ming & Norcom | Nantes | 9 Do | |
| Murow & 2 others | Do | 8 Do. | |
| Alcock William & five others | Do. | 15 May Do. | |
| William Stephenson & Georg Cabit | Do | 22 May Do. | |
| Mrs. Henderson & Williams | Nantes | 29. May do. | |
| Mr. & Mde. Bacon | L’Orient | 3. Juin 1782. | |
| Mr. Manifold | Nantes | 5. Juin 1782. | |
| La Demoiselle Richards | Ostende | 8. Juin 1782. | |
| Mr. Browne | Nantes | 15. Juin 1782 | |
| Mr. Tho: Munrowe | Ostende & d’ostende à Nantes | 18. Juin 1782 | |
| Mr. Henry Mitchel | Amsterdam | Do. | |
| Mde. Mary Adams | Ostende | 26 Juin 1782. | |
| Messrs. Dawes & Vaux— | Ostende | 24 Juillet 1782. | |
| Mr. Mayo | Geneve | Do. | |
| Mr. Simonds: avec deux matelots | Nantes | le 2 aout 1782. | |
| Mr. Bell et La Delle. Beckwith | Ostende | le 16 août 1782. | |
| Messrs. Smith, Mansfield & Porter | Nantes | le 26. août 1782. | |
| Made. Lavau | Rochefort | le 3. Oct. 1782. | |
5. This single sheet, both sides of which are completely filled, is the only surviving record of passports BF issued to individuals. As such, it is a tantalizing indication of what their overall numbers might have been. Scarcely more than a dozen passports have been located from the period between BF’s appointment as minister plenipotentiary in 1779 (when he began printing them) and his departure from France in 1785. For the first example see XXX, 181–2, and the accompanying illustration.
6. The list was established by WTF. Mumford wrote the entries for Jan. 14 and 22, and thereafter, they are primarily in the hand of L’Air de Lamotte, with occasional entries by WTF.
7. The representative of a group of Manchester manufacturers. Wyld visited BF on Jan. 2, and then returned to England; see BF’s journal, Jan. 1–3, and Wyld’s letters of Jan. 2 and Feb. 12.
8. A Boston physician who was travelling with Thomas and Joseph Winthrop and Dr. Benjamin Parker. They had come to Paris from Amsterdam bearing a letter of introduction from John Thaxter to WTF (Dec. 19, 1781, APS). See also Adams Correspondence, V, 82n.
9. For both Talbot and Bill, escaped prisoners, see the Editorial Note on Promissory Notes, above.
1. Moran and the following thirteen men were escaped prisoners; see the Editorial Note on Promissory Notes.
2. For whom see JW to BF, Nov. 22, 1781, above.