1To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Henderson and John Smith, 5 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I hope you well excues me for making So Bold as to troubale you with thes feaw lines: in the meantime it is the humbl Petition of a Prisinor of war that is willing to enter in the America Serves as I hear that there is two Cutters fitting out at St Malos and I know how to Manage a Cutter on the Cost of England for I formley Belonged to a Smuggling...