Benjamin Franklin Papers

The American Commissioners to Sartine, 30 June 1778: résumé

The American Commissioners to Sartine3

AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; two copies: National Archives

<Passy, June 30, 1778: We enclose a protest about a ship of ours that the British captured off the French coast. As they have reclaimed similar captures made by our cruisers,4 we hope you will think it fair that we be indemnified from British goods in this kingdom.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. Published in Butterfield, John Adams Diary, IV, 143.

4. A reference to the controversy prominent in Vol. XXV: the British demanded and obtained return of the prizes taken by Capts. Babson and Kendrick.

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    Franklin Papers
    Title
    The American Commissioners to Sartine, 30 June 1778: résumé
    Authors
    American Commissioners
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Lee, Arthur
    Adams, John
    Recipient
    Sartine, Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de
    Date
    30 June 1778

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    “The American Commissioners to Sartine, 30 June 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0635. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 26, March 1 through June 30, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, p. 699.]