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A Page from the Visitors’ Book, [after 2 September 1778]

A Page from the Visitors’ Book

D: American Philosophical Society

[after September 2, 1778]8

Mr. Me. et Mlle. Defouchy sont venus pour avoir l’honneur de voir Monsieur franklin.9

Comte de Mac Donald Colonel.1

P. Hancock, from England au Caffe anglais Rue st. honore du sergent.

Hemery fondeur en carataire d’ainprimery Rue st. jaque che Mr. Canon Cordonier visavi le notaire.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8. See the preceding document.

9. Jean-Paul Grandjean de Fouchy, an astronomer, had been secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie des Sciences from 1743 to 1776. DBF.

1. See XXIII, 168 n, where MacDonald’s rank was that of captain.

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    September–December 1778

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    “A Page from the Visitors’ Book, [after 2 September 1778],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-27-02-0321. [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. 341.]