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From Benjamin Franklin to Schweighauser, 7 October 1780

To Schweighauser

Copy: Library of Congress

Passy, Oct. 7. 1780.

Sir,

This is to request you would write to Messrs. DeSegray & Company to forward the Saltpetre by land to L’Orient, where M. Williams will be ready to receive it & ship it with other Goods in his Hands for America. By doing this immediately you will much oblige me. With great Esteem I have the Honour to be,

M. Schweighauser.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to Schweighauser, 7 October 1780
    Author
    Franklin, Benjamin
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    Schweighauser, Jean-Daniel
    Date
    7 October 1780

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to Schweighauser, 7 October 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-33-02-0314. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 33, July 1 through November 15, 1780, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997, p. 376.]

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