Benjamin Franklin Papers

The American Commissioners: Receipt for an Installment of a French Loan, 3 August 1778

The American Commissioners: Receipt for an Installment of a French Loan6

DS: American Philosophical Society

A Paris le 3 aoust 1778

Nous avons reçu de Monsieur d’harveley Garde du Trésor Royal7 sept cent cinquante mille Livres

B Franklin
Arthur Lee
John Adams

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

6. The third quarterly installment of a 3,000,000 l.t. loan extended by the French government the preceding November (XXV, 207–8). The previous payments were made on February 28 and May 19: account XII (described in XXV, 3).

7. Joseph Micault d’Harvelay, keeper of the Royal Treasury: XXIII, 199 n.

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    The American Commissioners: Receipt for an Installment of a French Loan, 3 August 1778
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    American Commissioners
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Lee, Arthur
    Adams, John
    Date
    3 August 1778

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    “The American Commissioners: Receipt for an Installment of a French Loan, 3 August 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-27-02-0187. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 27, July 1 through October 31, 1778, ed. Claude A. Lopez. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988, p. 206.]