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To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Nesbitt, 17 September 1781

From Jonathan Nesbitt

ALS: American Philosophical Society

L’Orient Septr: 17th: 1781

Sir/

Mr. Stephen Willson, a young Gentleman lately arrivd from America9 will have the honor to deliver you this Letter. He is recommended to me by my friends in Philadelphia in the warmest manner, & doubt not but he will prove himself entirely worthy of your Excellencys favor & protection—

I have the honor to remain wth. Sentiments of the greatest respect Sir Your most Obedient hble Servt.

Jonatn: Nesbitt

Addressed: The hon: Dr: B: Franklin / Minister plenipotentiary from / the United States of America at / the Court of Versailles. / a Passy / pres Paris

Notation: Nesbit L’orient 7bre. 17. 1781

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

9. Perhaps Stephen Wilson, a Baltimore merchant: Jefferson Papers, XVI, 548n; “First Presbyterian Church Membership, 1766–1783,” Maryland Hist. Mag., XXXV (1940), 261; Arlan K. Gilbert, “Gunpowder Production in Post-Revolutionary Maryland,” Maryland Hist. Mag., LII (1957), 189.

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Nesbitt, 17 September 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-35-02-0374. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 35, May 1 through October 31, 1781, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999, p. 506.]

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