Certificate for Captain Beaulieu, [17 December 1784]
Certificate for Captain Beaulieu5
DS:6 Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence
[December 17, 1784]
I do hereby certify whom it may concern, that Capt. Lewis Joseph de Beaulieu, late of General Count Pulaski’s Corps, is still living, being with me here at Passy, while this Certificate is writing, December 17. 1784.7
B. Franklin
5. This certificat de vie was prepared in anticipation of the application of Louis Joseph (Joseph-Louis) d’Escudier de Beaulieu (XXXII, 334–5) for the money owed him by the United States. Beaulieu was on the list of foreign officers to be paid by Grand in Paris, by order of Congress: Morris Papers, IX, 561; and see the annotation of La Rouërie to BF, Jan. 15. He was also due a pension, not covered by that congressional resolution: JCC, XXVIII, 459n, 483.
6. In the hand of L’Air de Lamotte.
7. Several corrections to the text, and several incomplete clauses of attestation written beneath the text, were added, in pencil, at a later time. They may date from the spring of 1786, when Beaulieu applied to TJ for a renewal of this certificate: Jefferson Papers, IX, 328–9, 479, 541, 571.