To Thomas Jefferson from Carra, 8 December 1787

From Carra

Paris, 8 Dec. 1787. Has been charged with a memorial concerning Cazeau, a Canadian, in relation to a debt which Congress acknowledged by resolutions of 6 Feb. 1783 and 18 Mch. 1784; asks for an appointment to present them to TJ.

RC (DLC); 1 p.; in French; signed: “Carra de la Bibliotheque du Roi, rue de la michodiere, à coté de la rue projettée.” Recorded in SJL as received 9 Dec. 1787.

For the report and resolution on Cazeau’s debt, see JCC description begins Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, D.C., 1904–37, 34 vols. description ends , xxiv, 117; xxvi, 147–50.

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: To Thomas Jefferson from Carra, 8 December 1787
Author: Carra, Jean Louis
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 8 December 1787

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Cite as: “To Thomas Jefferson from Carra, 8 December 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-12-02-0415. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 12, 7 August 1787 – 31 March 1788, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955, p. 406.]

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