To Benjamin Franklin from Uriah Forrest, 10 April 1784
From Uriah Forrest8
ALS: American Philosophical Society
London 10. April 1784.
Sir
The enclosed9 came to my hands this day and as it appears to have met with rough treatment on it’s Passage I have done myself the Honor to put it under Cover.
Shou’d there be any thing at this place which your Excellency can Charge me with that will be usefull to yourself or Our Country It will afford me real pleasure Being with all possible Respect Yr. Excellency’s Most Obedt. & Very hble St.
Uriah Forrest
Addressed: His Excellency B. Franklin Esquire / Ministre Plena. of the United States / Passy / near / Paris.—
Notation: Uriah Toncet 10 April 1784—
8. A former lieutenant colonel in the Md. militia who was now a principal in the Baltimore-based mercantile firm of Forrest & Stoddert. Forrest moved to London in June, 1783, to establish a branch in that city. He returned to America in 1786 and settled in Georgetown, Md.; he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1793–94), and the Md. Senate (1796–1801): Edward C. Papenfuse, In Pursuit of Profit: the Annapolis Merchants in the Era of the American Revolution, 1763–1805 (Baltimore and London, 1975), pp. 183–5; Edward C. Papenfuse et al., A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635–1789 (2 vols., Baltimore and London, 1979), I, 324–5.
9. Not found.