1To Benjamin Franklin from Alexander Ewing, [after 21 March 1778] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I take the liberty to inform your Excellency of my present distresses and to claim your protection which considering the Services I have rendred to she America I hope you will not refuse me. You will be pleased to recolect that from 1769 to 1775 I was master of the Ship Jupiter constantly Employed Carrying Emigrants from Ireland to America of which at...