1From Benjamin Franklin to the Judges of the Admiralty of Vannes, 18 May 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Archives de la Marine By the declaration and report to me Made By the honourable Commodore Jones, a Copy of Which Declaration I here With Send you. It appears to me that the British Ship of War the Serapis therein mentioned to be met With, When Convoying a fleet of the Same Nation from the Baltick & taken By the Bonhomme Richard Which Was Commissioned By the Congress and Commanded By the...