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From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Huntington, 3 May 1781

To Samuel Huntington

ALS: National Archives, American Philosophical Society; transcript: National Archives

Passy, May 3. 1781

Sir

Enclos’d are Copies of a Number of Publick Letters taken from the English in a late New York Pacquet,2 of which I have already sent Duplicates by several Conveyances.

I have the honour to be, with great Respect, Sir, Your most obedient & most humble Servant

B Franklin

His Excellency Saml Huntington Esqr President of Congress

Notation: Letter May 3. 1781 Doctr. Franklin Recd. Sept 24.3

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. See XXXIV, 516–17, 534.

3. JCC, XXI, 996.

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Huntington, 3 May 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-35-02-0007. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 35, May 1 through October 31, 1781, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999, p. 21.]

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