To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 1 May 1782

From John Jay

AL (draft): Columbia University Library

Madrid 1 May 1782

Dr Sir

I have this Day drawn upon your Exy three Sets of Bills in Favor of the Marqs D Yranda

for	£ 4600
	4400
	4297.10.6
	13297.10.65

being the Ballance of principal and Interest due to him on the Sum of one Million seven hundred and Eighty thousand eight hundred and sixty seven Reals of Vellon and twenty six Marevodis, borrowed of him by me on the 11 April 1781 for the purpose of paying a number of Bills of Exchange drawn upon me by order of Congress, payable about that June.

I have the honor to be with great Regard & Esteem Dr Sir Your obliged & obt Servt

His Exy Doctr Franklin
To Dr Franklin 1 May 1782 advisg the dr. of Bills to pay Marqs. D Yranda

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. The sum is in livres tournois. Ferdinand Grand honored the bills on Aug. 9: Account XXVII (XXXII, 4).

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Source Project: Franklin Papers
Title: To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 1 May 1782
Author: Jay, John
Recipient: Franklin, Benjamin
Date: 1 May 1782

Reference

Cite as: “To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 1 May 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-37-02-0176. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 37, March 16 through August 15, 1782, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003, p. 261.]

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