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James Moylan to the American Commissioners, 26 August 1778: résumé

James Moylan to the American Commissioners3

ALS: American Philosophical Society

<L’Orient, August 26, 1778: Capt. Daniel McNeill arrived here yesterday on the General Mifflin, privateer. He left Portsmouth May 8, cruised the north seas, and captured thirteen prizes there and at the mouth of the Channel. Five he sunk, the rest he sent to America or France; one [the Isabelle] arrived here. He also has some fifty prisoners. Can they be exchanged for Americans imprisoned in England?>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 398.

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    James Moylan to the American Commissioners, 26 August 1778: résumé
    Author
    Moylan, James
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    American Commissioners
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Lee, Arthur
    Adams, John
    Date
    26 August 1778

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    “James Moylan to the American Commissioners, 26 August 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-27-02-0284. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 27, July 1 through October 31, 1778, ed. Claude A. Lopez. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988, p. 305.]