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From Benjamin Franklin to Schweighauser, 6 May 1781

To Schweighauser

Copy: Library of Congress

Passy, May 6. 1781

Sir,

I received your respected Letter of the 28th. past and shall duly honour the Bills you mention to have drawn for the 4444 Dollars.—1

I delivered your inclosed to M. Laurens, who will write to you. What Goods he intends to go in the Active are at Nantes, viz, some Chests of Arms & some Medecines, which he thinks will not be a Quantity to make the relanding of the old Arms necessary, otherwise we both agree with you in Opinion that it should be done.2 I have in my last3 requested you to furnish the four Captains, with about 5. Guineas each.

I have the honour to be, Sir, &c.

M. Schweighauser.

1. The letter is missing, but for the money in question see BF to Jay, May 5.

2. The Active carried medicine, but not the arms: XXXIV, 380n.

3. Above, May 3.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to Schweighauser, 6 May 1781
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    Schweighauser, Jean-Daniel
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    6 May 1781

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to Schweighauser, 6 May 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-35-02-0015. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 35, May 1 through October 31, 1781, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999, p. 27.]

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