Philip Hancock: Receipt, 29 July 1778
Philip Hancock: Receipt
ALS: American Philosophical Society
Amsterdam 29 Juillet 1778
Recu de Messieurs Horneca Fizeaux & Cie.6 d’ordre et pour Compte de Messieurs Les Commissionaires du Congrés La somme de deux Cent florins Argent Court d’hollande fait a double ne Servant que pour une
Philip Hancock
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
6. For this prominent Amsterdam banking house, of which the Grand brothers were behind-the-scene directors, see XXVI, 135 n, 338–9 n. Apparently Horneca, Fizeaux & Cie. acted on its own initiative, perhaps with collaboration from Ferdinand Grand, whose letter of Aug. 27 below reveals his own sentiments respecting Hancock.