Benjamin Franklin Papers

The American Commissioners to Abraham Whipple, 13 June 1778: résumé

The American Commissioners to Abraham Whipple5

AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; copies: National Archives (two), University of Virginia Library, Yale University Library

<Passy, June 13, 1778: Mr. Hezekiah Ford, chaplain to North Carolina troops in the continental service,6 was captured and sent to Europe, and has now found his way to us in Paris. We recommend him to be chaplain on your frigate until he returns home.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. Published in Butterfield, John Adams Diary, IV, 135.

6. So he said. This Anglican clergyman had aroused deep suspicion in his native Virginia; when he eventually returned there he was charged with treasonable activities, but apparently never brought to trial: ibid., II, 364–5 n.

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    The American Commissioners to Abraham Whipple, 13 June 1778: résumé
    Authors
    American Commissioners
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Lee, Arthur
    Adams, John
    Recipient
    Whipple, Abraham
    Date
    13 June 1778

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    “The American Commissioners to Abraham Whipple, 13 June 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0554. [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. 615.]