Two LS : American Philosophical Society; copies: Library of Congress, National Archives (two) Since our last of 18th. Inst. in which you were informed of the Enemy being encamped at Somerset Court house eight Miles from Brunswick We have the pleasure of acquainting you that on the 19th at Night they made a precipitate retreat therefrom to the last mentioned place, and on the Morning of the 22d...
2Jonathan Williams, Jr., to the American Commissioners, 26 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Letterbook copy: Yale University Library Agreeable to the determination I mention’d in my last every operation relative to the annonyme remains suspended. I have notified Mr. Peltier that I would not consent to any alteration of your orders and that he might take his ship and do what he pleased on Mr. Montieus Account but nothing on Yours. She lays at Paimbeauf with part of her Cargo on board...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Elie de Beaumont, 26 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Votre illustre cause acquiert de plus en plus de nouveaux partisans. Vous verrés par la lettre ci jointe de Monsieur le Comte de tressan lieutenant general des armées du roi qu’il consacre un autre lui même a la defense de la liberté ameriquaine, ou plustôt de la liberté humaine, car si elle n’existoit plus dans vos heureuses contrées dites moi dans quel...