1From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 28 November 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour to write to me by the last Post, (it is without Date) and am glad to hear that Commodore Jones was so well fitted and ready for sailing. I hope he will arrive safe with his Ships in a good Port. I have wrote to Capt. Cunningham at Dunkerque, where he informed me he was soon to be.— The Letter you...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 27 January 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received duly the Letters you did me the honour of writing me, of the 10th. and 20th. Instant. The Accounts were very properly sent to Mr. De Chaumont; who has no doubt given such orders as are necessary relating to Supplies for Capt. Jones at L’orient, if any are wanted there. I know nothing of the Drawer of the Bill of which you sent me a Copy; nor do I know that...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 21 July 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS and copy: Library of Congress I declined having any Concern with the Bills drawn on M. Laurens, because I had no Orders nor Advice concerning them, and knew nothing of their Amount, and because he himself was daily expected to arrive in Holland. But being lately informed that the Congress Stopt the Proceeding in those Drafts soon after it commenc’d, having adopted the better Plan of...
4From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 29 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received your respected Favour of the 21. Inst. and shall take what Care I can that the Bills endors’d to you, and taken by the English, be not paid without your Endorsement. The others which you mention that have come to your Hands in Mr Sears’s Letters, have already been presented, & tho’ not endorsed by him will be accepted on your...
5From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 4 September 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me dated the 30th. past, acquainting me that Capt. Gillon is gone without the Goods, and of the Difficulties you meet with respecting two Vessels that were engag’d to carry them under his Convoy; upon which you desire my Directions.— The whole Affair of that enormous Purchase was a Deceit and...
6From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 15 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour to write to me the 7th. Instant, acquainting me with the Arrival of Commodore Jones at Amsterdam, for which I am obliged to you, as well as for the friendly Reception and Assistance you have afforded that brave Officer. I suppose M. de Chaumont who is your Correspondent, and had the Care of equipping...
7From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 26 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received duly your Favour of the 12th. Inst. & should have answer’d it sooner had not a very severe Access of the Gout obliged me to keep my Bed, & rendered me incapable of doing any Business. I consent to your accepting the seven Bills you mention drawn on M. Lawrens, amounting in all to three thousand eight hundred and fifty Guilders; and to enable you to pay...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 4 February 1782 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I have received lately the Honour of Sundry Letters from you, acquainting me that our Goods which had been detained by the owners of the Ships, in Order to extort from us an exorbitant Demand of 60000 florins were delivering to Mr. Barclay; and by yours of the [21]st. past you acquaint me that the last Part of them are delivered, which I am glad to hear. in return you...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 4 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me on the 29th past, relating to certain Bills drawn on Mr Lawrens and requesting to know if I will engage to reimburse you, if you in his Absence, accept & pay them. As I have received no Orders nor any Advice relating to any such Bills, know not by whom they are drawn, whether for...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 22 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received duly your respected Letter of the 15th. current, inclosing one of the Bills drawn on Mr. Lawrens, which I return herewith. I am satisfy’d that the same is a genuine Bill, and that it will be accepted by Mr Lawrens, when he arrives, as of the Date when it would have been presented if he had been at Amsterdam: But I have no Advice or...