Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Ferdinand Weisheim, 10 February 1778: résumé

From Ferdinand Weisheim3

ALS: American Philosophical Society

<Cologne, February 10, 1778, in French: I have waited for a chance to convince you of my zeal for your service, and now hear that you have cordially received a young man from Aixla-Chapelle. God has endowed me with few of this world’s goods, but has trained me in jurisprudence, arithmetic and accounting; if you have any employment for me, I will furnish my credentials.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. He gives his address as the procurator’s office of the Archbishop’s ecclesiastical court.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Ferdinand Weisheim, 10 February 1778: résumé
    Author
    Weisheim, Ferdinand
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    10 February 1778

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Ferdinand Weisheim, 10 February 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-25-02-0501. [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, p. 647.]