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Francis Coffyn to the American Commissioners, 30 June 1778: résumé

Francis Coffyn to the American Commissioners9

ALS: American Philosophical Society

<Dunkirk, June 30, 1778: Six Russian ships of the line are reported to have arrived in England, with six more to follow; the officers are British and the crews Russian. Three are ordered to be docked and surveyed in Sheerness, three in Portsmouth.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

9Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 244.

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