11To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 10 December 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We now beg leave to Confirm to your Excellency What we had the honor of writing you last post, to Which we can have nothing to add on our part and of course can only keep your Excellency informed of the progressive Steps that are daily taken towards bringing the Affair in Question to a final Issue to your Satisfaction, which will not be less so to us, as...
12To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 7 December 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society In answer to the letter your Excellency honoured us with in date of 26 Ulto:, & to that which his Excellency John Adams, did us also the honour of writing to us, to mention proposals in conformity of those of your Excellency, About the Vessels which were disappointed of Mr Gillon’s Convoy. We wrote Your Excellency before, at the particular desire of His...
13To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 12 November 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society In Consequence of our respects to your Excellcy. dated 20th. Sepr. since which we are deprived of your favors, we Communicated the Contents of the last to his Excy. John Adams Esqr. as soon as his health would admit of it who told us he was quite a Stranger to this business, but would (we think) write to your Excellcy. about it. We have learnt since that...
14To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 4 October 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society We are without any of Your Excellency’s Favors Since we had the honor of writing in date of the 20th. Ulto. The inclosed are particularly recommended to our Care, and came to hand yesterday per the Brigg Firebrand, Captn. Trowbridge from Newhaven Which place he left about the 20th. of Augt.— when hopes were high in America on Accot. of the expected arival of...
15To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 20 September 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society We were honor’d with your ever esteem’d favor’s of 31st. Ulto. and 4th. instt., the first with one inclosed for his Excellency Mr. Adams to whom we deliver’d it of Course and the latter in reply to that with Which we troubled you in date of the 30th of last month. We are extremely Sorry that we Cannot yet acquaint you with the perfect re’establishment of the...
16To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 30 August 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society We think it our duty to lay before you a Circumstance which our attachment for America has made very painfull to us. Commodore Alexr. Gillon having found that his Ship Could not take the Goods ordered by the Honourable Colln [Colonel] Laurens, after those goods had been purchased and part of them Shipp’d already on board of the Frigate, Major Jackson agreed...
17To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 16 August 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May we begg leave to thank your Excellency for her last Kind favour, we have delivred to Capn. Brown the inclosed, and he seemd much pleased that it was likely he should enjoy his prize; about the nature of which we had not heard so much before. We do not know of anything which should detain Comor. Gillon from Sailing, he hath been waiting some days perhaps...
18To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 23 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : South Carolina Historical Society The Inclosed pacquet we received last Saturday per a Ship to our address named the Minerva Captn. Moses Brown from Newbury port, after a passage hither of thirty eight days, & after a Weeks sail from port, he captured the Brig Swallow from London to New York, with dry goods; and sent her for Boston after taking out Six of her Crew which he brought with...
19To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 11 April 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We have the honour to adress Your Excellency by direction of his Excy John Adams Esqr: as Among Some bills Drawn on his Excy Henry Lawrence there offerd one denoted hereunder, which Mr. Adams says to belong to the first parcell we had Accepted, and so referred it to us and to Your Excellency to provide for the payment, about Which in consequence we will...
20To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 19 February 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The reason of our addressing your Excellency is a letter we received by the way of England from Cape. Daniel McNeal dated St Lucia Decembr 24 advising us of his being captured & carried in there & begging us in consequence to inform your Excellency of it with his Supplication that She would be pleased not to accept or pay any bills of the loan treasury...
21To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 22 January 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society In consequence of the intimacy Your Excellency honourd us with, we hope it will not displease her, if we acquaint her with the Accession of our States to the Armed Neutrality, which hath been signd at the Court of Russia, and assures us of vindicating(?) our Common Concern with the English Court with joint force and spirits. We think this event will give...
22To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 28 December 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May it please your Excellency; that we have the honour to give her Joy with our Selfs on the firm methode our Republicq hath adopted to resist the most impudent demands of the English Court, which already produced Sr. Joseph Yorke quitted the Hague, and there Seems no manner of doubt butt we shall be very Soon at an open rupture, the sensible people of...
23To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 2 November 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May this find Your Excellency in a better state of health, then we observed by the reception of her last favour, she had been in, this being our wish, and to obey always her most respected Commands, we have Accepted, to be comprehended with those of the Month of October the three thousand eigt hundred and Fifty Gilders on Mr. Laurens, and we have taken the...
24To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 30 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May we be excused to trouble Your Excellency again with An Account of Four bills Amounting to four thousand four hundred Gelders on Mr. Laurens since our last; we wish we may receive now by the first mails directions About those we acquainted your Excellency with Some time ago, for Satisfaction to the enquiries of the bearers. Our newspapers mention that...
25To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 25 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society With all reverence we take leave to lay again before Your Excellency; that we have not yett received the permission for the Acceptance of the last mention’d bills on Mr Laurens of which the bearers apply’d again, butt were persuaded to wait untill next maill, Should we then not find our Selfs favour’d with directions from your Excellency, we shall be...
26To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 12 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Since our last respects to your Excellency, we have only now to mention, that of the bills on Mr. Laurens we gott yesterday seven more to the Amount of Three thousand eight hundred and fifty Gilders, for which we have promisd an Answer by the return of the maill, and your Excellency will find us ready to Accept of them and any others, as we only wish now...
27To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 9 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We begg leave to thank your Excellency for her most obliging favour of the 1st. instant, promising to honour our draufts in the manner we have mention’d, and which we will Continue in Consequence; when any other bills will appear, we propose to follow exactly your Excellencys orders in mentioning the summs, except when a protest should be enthreathend, in...
28To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 2 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society My it please your Excellency, that on examination of those bills, which we shall have to pay in the Month of decemr: next, we found they were only amounting to Bk. Mey [Bank Money] f. 12316—instead of f. 12366—as we adviced wrong by our last of the 25th. September and that we have now taken the liberty to draw in consequence on Your Excellency our three...
29To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 25 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May it please your Excellency, That as some new draufts have apeared lately on Mr Laurence, we have continued to give our Acceptance to the Same as usuall; we specifie them in the List here inclosed; for which we begg for your Excellencys approbation; and to lett us know in time if there might become any alteration in her dispositions on the Subject....
30To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 18 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May it please your Excellency, that on Covering the inclosed, recomanded to our Care, We crave reference to our last Respects of the 31th. of August and that we were as happy as to engage the Chevalier de Luxenbourg, on his return to Paris to charge himself with the delivery of a box containing a very fine Portrait in Chinea of the Great Generall Washington...
31To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 31 August 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May it please your Excellency! That having not receivd an answer to our Last, proposing to continue to Accept the bills drawn on Henry Laurens Esqr.; we may Suppose that the quantity drawn hath been a trifle, and that your Excellency had no objection to our going on, as we had begun, in which the approbation of Your Excy. Shall always be of no little...
32To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, [on or after 31 August 1780] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May we thank your Excellency for the late favour she honourd us with of the 21st: instant as we are now sure that the bills drawn on the Hone. Henry Laurens will be further out of danger, and your Excy will answer for the same; We shall now wait for your Excellencys dispositions for our rimbursement either that we may draw or have the money remitted; and if...
33To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, [after 24?] June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We have gott the honour to trouble your Excellency with the explication of Sevall. bills drawn on the Honourable Henry Laurens Esqr. Comissioner fr. the United States of North America residing in Amsterdam, we have since ask’d a fourthnight that we expected an Answer butt an English house having presented a bill the 24th. send word today that she would have...
34To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 13 July 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Though with some reluctance we take the Liberty to trouble your Excellency again, she will excuse us we hope as saving the reputation and the Credit of the United States is our only motive. Our Laws do not admitt any bills to be only enregistrated when not Accepted they are generally protested, and So they must. We thought however upon previous consultation...
35To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 15 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS and AL : National Archives That in Consequence of our former information, we have accepted all those bills which hath appeared to us drawn on the Honourable Henry Laurens in Amsterdam, untill the receipt of those letters she hath favourd us with dated 4th and 6th instant, which came to hand by last Mail, we inclose the list of our Accept. How willing we might be again to go further, the...
36To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, [1] June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We had the honour to write to Your Excellency by last maill, acquainting her that we were willing to protect the American Creditt in accepting personally some bills drawn by order of Congress on Henry Lawrence Esqr. residing in Amsterdam; for whose arrivall we still wait. Our generall private connections with America are already so large that the assistance...
37To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 29 May 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May it please your Excellency; That we lay before her, that by bills of Exchange drawn on Henry Lawrence Esqr. as Commissioner of the United States, to reside in Amsterdam, it appeard to us that it was expected in America this Gentleman was to be here before this; butt neither here nor at the Hague we could have the pleasure to learn anything about it. That...
38To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 1 May 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society May it please your Excellency That after a longer Silence then we could wish, we take on now the liberty of recalling ourselfs to her remembrance, with assurance that we will be ever devoted to her, and to the American cause which we have the pleasure now, to see more and more of consequence in our Country; the Influence of the French Court the declaration...
39To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, [February? 1780] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We most kindly thank you for your agreable last favour, we have duely noted its contents, we hope your Excellency hath been Satisfied with our Account of the American Squadron, and will always be so with what She Causes to pass throw our hands. We doubt not butt your Excellency hath received the Account of Comodor JP. Jones Esqr. arrivall at the Coruña...
40To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 20 January 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society On the refusal of Mrs. Hope & Co: the owners of the vessel in favour of who’s Captn. a Bill was drawn agreeing with the inclosed Copeÿ, theÿ have apply’d to us, we have promis’d them that we Should directlÿ write about it, as we had no orders, nor were acquainted with the drawer; so we make bold to applÿ to ÿour Excellencÿ; and in case she might think...