To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 19 January 1782
From Jonathan Williams, Jr.
ALS: American Philosophical Society
Nantes Jan. 19. 1782
Dear & hond sir
I have only time before the departure of the Post to inform you of the Arrival of the Brig Betsey7 from Philadelphia & to forward the inclosed for you.—
I am as ever most dutifully & affectionately
Jona Williams J
Notation: Jona. Williams Nantes. 19. Janr. 1782.
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
7. Commanded by Bernard Gallagher (b. c. 1751), the ship had eight guns and twenty-seven men. Gallagher had received his commission on Dec.1: Claghorn, Naval Officers, p. 117; Charles Henry Lincoln, comp., Naval Records of the American Revolution, 1775–1788 (Washington, D.C., 1906), p. 238; JW to BF, Feb. 9, below.