1From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 15 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour to write to me the 7th. Instant, acquainting me with the Arrival of Commodore Jones at Amsterdam, for which I am obliged to you, as well as for the friendly Reception and Assistance you have afforded that brave Officer. I suppose M. de Chaumont who is your Correspondent, and had the Care of equipping...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 29 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received your respected Favour of the 21. Inst. and shall take what Care I can that the Bills endors’d to you, and taken by the English, be not paid without your Endorsement. The others which you mention that have come to your Hands in Mr Sears’s Letters, have already been presented, & tho’ not endorsed by him will be accepted on your...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 28 November 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour to write to me by the last Post, (it is without Date) and am glad to hear that Commodore Jones was so well fitted and ready for sailing. I hope he will arrive safe with his Ships in a good Port. I have wrote to Capt. Cunningham at Dunkerque, where he informed me he was soon to be.— The Letter you...
4From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 27 January 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received duly the Letters you did me the honour of writing me, of the 10th. and 20th. Instant. The Accounts were very properly sent to Mr. De Chaumont; who has no doubt given such orders as are necessary relating to Supplies for Capt. Jones at L’orient, if any are wanted there. I know nothing of the Drawer of the Bill of which you sent me a Copy; nor do I know that...
5From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 4 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me on the 29th past, relating to certain Bills drawn on Mr Lawrens and requesting to know if I will engage to reimburse you, if you in his Absence, accept & pay them. As I have received no Orders nor any Advice relating to any such Bills, know not by whom they are drawn, whether for...
6From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 6 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copies: Library of Congress, National Archives Since writing to you by yesterdays Mail, I have received the honour of yours, proposing to accept Bills drawn on M. Laurens, if I will authorise you so to do, and accept your Bills to equal Amt. Having no Orders about those Bills, or even any Advice of such being drawn, and knowing that the English have plai’d many...
7From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 22 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received duly your respected Letter of the 15th. current, inclosing one of the Bills drawn on Mr. Lawrens, which I return herewith. I am satisfy’d that the same is a genuine Bill, and that it will be accepted by Mr Lawrens, when he arrives, as of the Date when it would have been presented if he had been at Amsterdam: But I have no Advice or...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 21 July 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS and copy: Library of Congress I declined having any Concern with the Bills drawn on M. Laurens, because I had no Orders nor Advice concerning them, and knew nothing of their Amount, and because he himself was daily expected to arrive in Holland. But being lately informed that the Congress Stopt the Proceeding in those Drafts soon after it commenc’d, having adopted the better Plan of...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 1 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I have just received your respected Letter of the 25th. past, and take this first Opportunity of answering, that I approve of your making the Drafts upon me which you therein mention, and which I shall duly honour. But as Mr Lawrens, who was to sail three Days after Mr Searle, may now be expected in Holland every Day, I could wish that you...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 26 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received duly your Favour of the 12th. Inst. & should have answer’d it sooner had not a very severe Access of the Gout obliged me to keep my Bed, & rendered me incapable of doing any Business. I consent to your accepting the seven Bills you mention drawn on M. Lawrens, amounting in all to three thousand eight hundred and fifty Guilders; and to enable you to pay...
11From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 13 November 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received your Favour of the 2d. Instant, and shall duly honour your Bills therein mentioned. I have this Day written to Mr. Adams, on the Subject of the Bills on Mr. Laurens which you have not accepted, & such as may arrive hereafter, and believe he will accept them. I thank you much for the Services you have done, and your kind offer of continuing them, & have the...
12From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 6 August 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received your favour of the 23d past, inclosing a Pacquet for me. I am much obliged by your Care in forwarding it.— If the Vessel taken by Capt. Brown was really bound to New York, she will prove a good Prize; tho’ it was represented to me that she was bound to Virginia. The Nature of her Cargo will determine the Point: For if she was laden with...
13From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 4 September 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me dated the 30th. past, acquainting me that Capt. Gillon is gone without the Goods, and of the Difficulties you meet with respecting two Vessels that were engag’d to carry them under his Convoy; upon which you desire my Directions.— The whole Affair of that enormous Purchase was a Deceit and...
14From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 26 November 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received the honour of your Letter, dated the 12th Instant, wherein you inform me that “the Owners of the Vessels will certainly ask a much greater Advantage on the Freight now, both on Acct of the Season and the Want of Convoy, as on Acct. of the heavy Expences they were put at by Come. Gillon’s leaving their Ships behind; but if Proposals were made...
15From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 4 February 1782 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I have received lately the Honour of Sundry Letters from you, acquainting me that our Goods which had been detained by the owners of the Ships, in Order to extort from us an exorbitant Demand of 60000 florins were delivering to Mr. Barclay; and by yours of the [21]st. past you acquaint me that the last Part of them are delivered, which I am glad to hear. in return you...