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Musco Livingston to the American Commissioners, 21 July 1778: résumé

Musco Livingston to the American Commissioners7

ALS: American Philosophical Society

<Nantes, July 21, 1778: I arrived here last night, delivered my letters to Captain Whipple8 and shall leave immediately for Lorient with his instructions for Captain Tucker.

I would be exceedingly obliged for a certificate or brief letter to the president of Congress mentioning what Captain Tucker said of my conduct aboard the Boston. I will return to Nantes in five or six days from whence I expect to obtain passage for America. If you send a letter here under cover to John Lloyd9 I will be sure to receive it.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 308.

8. Certainly the commissioners’ letter of July 16 to Whipple and possibly those of that date to Simpson and/or Schweighauser.

9. A merchant identified in XXIII, 320 n.

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    Musco Livingston to the American Commissioners, 21 July 1778: résumé
    Author
    Livingston, Musco
    Recipients
    American Commissioners
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Lee, Arthur
    Adams, John
    Date
    21 July 1778

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    “Musco Livingston to the American Commissioners, 21 July 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-27-02-0121. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 27, July 1 through October 31, 1778, ed. Claude A. Lopez. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988, p. 131.]