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To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Nesbitt, 13 March 1783

From Jonathan Nesbitt

AL: American Philosophical Society

Thursday March 13: 1783

Mr: Nesbitt’s most respectful Compliments wait on Doctor Franklin, & requests that he will grant a Pasport for a Gentleman (a Mr. Bacon)3 who goes for England tomorrow. If Dr. Franklin has any Commands for England, Mr Bacon may be depended upon.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. Possibly the Bacon who received a passport the previous June: XXXVI, 379.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Nesbitt, 13 March 1783
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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Nesbitt, 13 March 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-39-02-0186. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 39, January 21 through May 15, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 330.]

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