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To Benjamin Franklin from Benyowzky, 13 January 1782

From Benyowzky

ALS: American Philosophical Society

a Passy le 13 Janr 1782.

Excellence,

Me voila parti. J’y va m’emploier entierement pour meriter votre estime, et justifier votre Bonne Opinion, Je La recomende encore ma Famille, et J’ose la prier de vouloir etendre Son amitié Sur toute ma Famille.5

J’ai l’honeur detre avec Respect De Votre Excellence le tres humble & trés Obeissant Serviteur6

Le Comte DE Benyowzky

Notation: Le Comte de Beniousky Jany 13. 1782

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. BF met Benyowzky’s wife on Jan. 2: see BF’s journal, Jan. 1, below.

6. Benyowzky wrote from Lorient on Jan. 21, his final letter to BF, to say that Jonathan Nesbitt had procured him passage on a ship to Philadelphia. He asked for BF’s continued esteem for himself and his family (Dartmouth College Library).

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Benyowzky, 13 January 1782
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    Benyowski, Maurice-Auguste, baron de
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    13 January 1782

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Benyowzky, 13 January 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-36-02-0291. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 36, November 1, 1781, through March 15, 1782, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001, p. 430.]

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