Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from B. Giraudeau, 20 December 1777: résumé

From B. Giraudeau5

ALS: American Philosophical Society

<La Rochelle, December 20, 1777, in French: Our merchants’ desire to expand their commerce in conjunction with yours is resulting in shipments to New England from all our ports. I want to send my ship, the François of 350 tons, Jean de La Fontaine master, to Virginia or Maryland, but have no connections in that part of New England. He would have a warm welcome, I am convinced, if you would give him letters of recommendation. He will be ready to sail between the 8th and 12th of next month.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. A minor Rochellais merchant but one of the first to become involved in the American trade: Patrick Villiers, Le commerce colonial atlantique et la guerre de l’indépendance des Etats Unis . . . (New York, 1977), pp. 74, 334.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from B. Giraudeau, 20 December 1777: résumé
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    Giraudeau, Benjamin
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    20 December 1777

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from B. Giraudeau, 20 December 1777: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-25-02-0246. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 25, October 1, 1777, through February 28, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986, pp. 325–326.]