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To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Nesbitt, 8 November 1779

From Jonathan Nesbitt

ALS: American Philosophical Society

L’Orient Novr: 8th: 1779.

Sir

I have not had occasion to trouble your Excellency since I had the honor of receiving your Letter relative to Captain Conyngham.7

The present serves to inclose a Bond for the purpose of obtaining a Commission or Letters of Marque for Arthur Kirk Commander of the Schooner Independance, lately arriv’d at Nantes from Baltimore,8 which I hope it will please your Excellency to grant, and forward under cover to Mr. Joshua Johnson at Nantes.— I remain with great respect. Sir Your most Obedt: Servt:

Jonatn: Nesbitt

Notation: Jonat. Nesbit. L’Orient Nov. 8. 1779.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. XXX, 414–15.

8. The bond, written at Nantes and dated Nov. 2, is at the APS. Kirk was a resident or former resident of Fell’s Point: “Census of Deptford Hundred or Fell’s Point, 1776,” Maryland Hist. Mag., XXV (1930), 272.

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Nesbitt, 8 November 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-31-02-0028. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 31, November 1, 1779, through February 29, 1780, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995, p. 47.]

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