1From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Nesbitt, 12 February 1782 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I recd. duly the Letter you honoured me with dated the 4th. Inst. The Bills in question, No. 368 for 60 Dollars & No. 398 for 120. Dollars, in favr. of Mr. William Tent [Trent], dated the 9th. March 79. were both accepted by me on the 21. Jany. 1780. being presented by Mr. P. Dacosta. If you desire any further Information relative to the indorsments &ca. I can procure...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Nesbitt, 14 September 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 7th. Instant, with the Letters from America in good order, and am much oblig’d by your Care in forwarding them, and will pay upon Sight your Draft for the Expence.— I have furnished the Messenger with Twelve Louis in part, for his present Occasions. I thank you for the Information of the...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Nesbitt, 7 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
On further enquiry, I find it will be agreeable to custom for you to state your case to Monsieur de Villedeuil in a Memoire and if you will be so good as to send me this memoire I will inclose it to M. de Villedeuil in a letter on the same subject. I have already sketched my letter in substance as follows; ‘that Mr. Jay having occasion for a messenger to send special dispatches to me, a Mr....
4From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Nesbitt, 29 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Capt. Conyngham has not been neglected. As soon as I heard of his arrival in England, I wrote to a friend to furnish him with money he might want, and to assure that he had never acted without a Commission. I have been made to understand in answer that there is not intention to prosecute him, and that he was accordingly removed from Pendennes Castle and put among the...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Nesbitt, 11 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not expect you so soon to-day, or I should have come in in time to have the pleasure of seeing you. The safe-conduct which I asked and obtained of Monsieur de Villedeuil was for you as a Courier, bringing dispatches to me from our Secretary for foreign affairs. The answers to these dispatches being now ready I cannot ask a continuance of that safe conduct. But so far as my consent to...
6From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Nesbitt, 17 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I thank you for the information contained in your favour of the 13th. Instant. Orders are gone down from the Government to secure Capt. Landais, and assist Capt. Jones in recovering the Command of his Ship. I am sensible the Officers and Men must have been misled most probably by the Person you suspect, as much as by Capt Landais, and I doubt not their returning to...
7From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Nesbitt, 21 January 1782 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received the Honour of yours relating to the Exchange of Capt. Kinnear for Capt. Bell. If Capt. Kinnear is not confin’d as a Ransomer, I do hereby give my Consent to the exchange. But not knowing in whose Care he’s confined, I know not to whom my Consent for his Discharge should be directed. You may therefore make Use of this Letter, & leave it with the Commissary...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Nesbitt, 1 November 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I duly received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 20th. past. But have been too ill to answer sooner. I am sorry that anything happened in the Disention of your Friend, that is disagreable to you or to him. I send down by this Post Directions to Commodore Jones to receive his Oath to the States & deliver him a Passport. But as there are other...