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To Benjamin Franklin from Sargent, Chambers and Co., 25 January 1772: résumé

From Sargent, Chambers and Co.5

AL: American Philosophical Society

<Mincing Lane, January 25, 1772, in the third person. The firm has received instructions by Mr. Bache to withdraw Franklin’s account, which with interest amounts to £149 16s. 1d.; what does he wish to have done with the money?6>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. For the mercantile firm, formerly Sargent Aufrere, see above, IX, 359 n; XIII, 295 n.

6. The withdrawal was part of a present of £200 to Richard Bache, who was about to return to America. Jour., p. 38; BF to Sarah Bache below, Jan. 29.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Sargent, Chambers and Co., 25 January 1772: résumé
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    25 January 1772

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Sargent, Chambers and Co., 25 January 1772: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-19-02-0026. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 19, January 1 through December 31, 1772, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1975, p. 41.]