Lambert Wickes to the American Commissioners, 4 January 1777

Lambert Wickes to the American Commissioners

ALS: American Philosophical Society

Nantz January 4th, 1777.

Gentlemen,

I this day received yours 26th. Decemr. and shall pay due Attention to the Contents thereof.6I shall emeadiately proceed for port L’Oriont and Execute that Bussiness and make my report Accordingly, as soon as possible. I shall take particular Care to Send my letters as you Direct and all my Letters will be directed to the Honourable Doctor Franklin, untill I get your firm Approbation, for directing as you shall think proper. If you think it absolutely Necessary for me to Come to Parris, Shall come up emeadiately after I Come from L’Oriont. From Gentlemen Your most Obliged humble Servant

Lambt. Wickes

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

6. The letter has been lost, but Wickes sketched the contents in a letter of Jan. 24 to the committee of secret correspondence (Naval Docs, VIII, 544–5): the commissioners directed him, when ice in the Loire prevented the Reprisal from leaving on its cruise, to go to Lorient and inspect three ships there that were offered for sale. See also Clark, Wickes, pp. 114–15.

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Title: Lambert Wickes to the American Commissioners, 4 January 1777
Author: Wickes, Lambert
Recipients: American Commissioners
Franklin, Benjamin
Deane, Silas
Lee, Arthur
Date: 4 January 1777

Reference

Cite as: “Lambert Wickes to the American Commissioners, 4 January 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-23-02-0067. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 23, October 27, 1776, through April 30, 1777, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983, pp. 114–115.]