Benjamin Franklin Papers

The American Commissioners to the Committee of Commerce, 29 July 1778: résumé

The American Commissioners to the Committee of Commerce8

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

<Passy, July 29, 1778: We have received your letter of May 289 by Captain Reed [Read]. We rejoice at the arrival of even 49 hogsheads of tobacco, but wish for more. As we are under contract with the farmers general to furnish 5,000 hogsheads, for which we have already received a million livres, we have consigned this small amount to them, rather than disposing of it at private sale.1 We have no further directions for Capt. Reed other than your orders to receive goods from Schweighauser. Your orders of May 16 will be attended to.2 We learn from Mr. Lovell’s letter of April 16 that Mr. Bingham is authorized to draw on us for not more than 100,000 livres. We will honor his drafts whenever we receive the order of Congress, but are anxious about our funds.3>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8. Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 331.

9. See XXVI, 537.

1. See the commissioners’ letter of July 27 to Schweighauser.

2. To liquidate accounts with Beaumarchais: XXVI, 475.

3. See BF to Lovell, July 22.

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    Franklin Papers
    Title
    The American Commissioners to the Committee of Commerce, 29 July 1778: résumé
    Authors
    American Commissioners
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Lee, Arthur
    Adams, John
    Recipient
    Committee of Commerce
    Date
    29 July 1778

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    “The American Commissioners to the Committee of Commerce, 29 July 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-27-02-0150. [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. 172.]