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The American Commissioners to Any Captain Bound to America, 10 June 1778: résumé

The American Commissioners to Any Captain Bound to America3

AL (draft):4 Library of Congress; copies: Massachusetts Historical Society, National Archives (two)

<Passy, June 10, 1778: Advices from London on the 5th are that Byron’s squadron is still at Plymouth, and is ordered not to sail at present for America.5>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. Published in Butterfield, John Adams Diary, IV, 135.

4. In BF’s hand.

5. See the commissioners’ warning to state officers above, May 18. Byron, as mentioned there, actually sailed on June 9.

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    The American Commissioners to Any Captain Bound to America, 10 June 1778: résumé
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    American Commissioners
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Lee, Arthur
    Adams, John
    Date
    10 June 1778

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    “The American Commissioners to Any Captain Bound to America, 10 June 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0543. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 26, March 1 through June 30, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, p. 605.]