21To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 9 December 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We Kindly thank your Excellence for her most Esteem’d favour of the 28h. of past Month, we are sorry to have troubled her with Such a non Sensical letter; butt it was not possible for us to detect what it could have been. Though our Clarck who left the Texel yesterday morning, told us that all the vessells there were preparing for Sail, & Mr. Dumas even...
22To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 10 January 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Mr. Dumas hath informed your Excellency with every particular which related to the Squadron under the comand of the brave Comodor JP Jones, we have thought it needless to trouble her attention with a repetition of the same. As we have heard that some of those vessells have safe arrived in Dunkerque we give your Excy. joy there with; true it is that we could...
23To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 20 January 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society On the refusal of Mrs. Hope & Co: the owners of the vessel in favour of who’s Captn. a Bill was drawn agreeing with the inclosed Copeÿ, theÿ have apply’d to us, we have promis’d them that we Should directlÿ write about it, as we had no orders, nor were acquainted with the drawer; so we make bold to applÿ to ÿour Excellencÿ; and in case she might think...
24From 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...
25To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, [February? 1780] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We most kindly thank you for your agreable last favour, we have duely noted its contents, we hope your Excellency hath been Satisfied with our Account of the American Squadron, and will always be so with what She Causes to pass throw our hands. We doubt not butt your Excellency hath received the Account of Comodor JP. Jones Esqr. arrivall at the Coruña...
26To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 1 May 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May it please your Excellency That after a longer Silence then we could wish, we take on now the liberty of recalling ourselfs to her remembrance, with assurance that we will be ever devoted to her, and to the American cause which we have the pleasure now, to see more and more of consequence in our Country; the Influence of the French Court the declaration...
27To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 29 May 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May it please your Excellency; That we lay before her, that by bills of Exchange drawn on Henry Lawrence Esqr. as Commissioner of the United States, to reside in Amsterdam, it appeard to us that it was expected in America this Gentleman was to be here before this; butt neither here nor at the Hague we could have the pleasure to learn anything about it. That...
28To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, [1] June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We had the honour to write to Your Excellency by last maill, acquainting her that we were willing to protect the American Creditt in accepting personally some bills drawn by order of Congress on Henry Lawrence Esqr. residing in Amsterdam; for whose arrivall we still wait. Our generall private connections with America are already so large that the assistance...
29From 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...
30From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 6 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copies: Library of Congress, National Archives Since writing to you by yesterdays Mail, I have received the honour of yours, proposing to accept Bills drawn on M. Laurens, if I will authorise you so to do, and accept your Bills to equal Amt. Having no Orders about those Bills, or even any Advice of such being drawn, and knowing that the English have plai’d many...