Francis Coffyn to the American Commissioners, 30 June 1778: résumé
Francis Coffyn to the American Commissioners9
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Dunkirk, June 30, 1778: Six Russian ships of the line are reported to have arrived in England, with six more to follow; the officers are British and the crews Russian. Three are ordered to be docked and surveyed in Sheerness, three in Portsmouth.>
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
9. Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 244.