1From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Conkling, 21 August 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Immediately upon the Receipt of yours acquainting me with your Misfortune, and the Vessel & Cargo was in Possession of the Admiralty, I apply’d to the Minister of the Marine, & laid before him the Papers you enclos’d to me with your Letter requesting that the said Vessel & Cargo might be delivered to the Consignees. Inclos’d I send you the answer. I have just received...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Conkling, 14 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society I was in hopes at the Receipt of the Letter Your Excellency honoured me the 21st. ulto. that it would not be long before I should had the Delivery of my Brigg the Whim & Cargoe, but as yet, I am told, there are not the least orders about it, from the Conseil-des-Prises to the Officers of the Admiralty at Sables D’Olonnes, this delay is of the greatest...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Conkling, 9 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The Gentelman that Waits on Your Excelency With this Letter is An Officer with me in the Brign. Whim the Season Being fair Relapts so that in A few weeks more shall Not be Able to Git my Cargo from La. France this fall thair fore have sent Mr. Pinkham to wait on Your Excelency And pray Your Excelency to Asist him in Obtaining An Order as soon as posable for...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Conkling, 23 January 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I beg the liberty to inform Your Excellency that my Brigg The Whim is inter’ly repair’d & ready to take load, but I am a fraid the Neat proceed of my Tobacco as yet unsold will not be sufficient to load my Brigg, even with Salt, after all charges paid, therefore Humbly pray Your Excellency to apply the Marquis De Castries in my behalf for 50. or 60 Tuns...