List of Articles Purchased by Fizeaux, Grand & Cie. on Franklin’s Orders: résumé, 26 August 1779

List of Articles Purchased by Fizeaux, Grand & Cie. on Franklin’s Orders

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<Amsterdam, August 26, 1779: The articles in question, to be purchased in Holland and delivered to Nantes by La Ville de Bordeaux, Capt. Claas, are thirteen in number. Eleven of them call for pharmaceuticals, two for textiles. The pharmaceuticals comprise large quantities of hipoquana root and jalap (both purgatives), sublimated sulphur (fleur de soufre), pannacea mere, opium, two kinds of rhubarb, two kinds of quinine, and refined camphor. The textiles are divided between Osnabrück linen and sail cloth. The total cost, including the extras, amounts to 2810 banco florins.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4. The document, in the Silas Deane Papers, consists of two slightly variant copies of the same account.

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Title: List of Articles Purchased by Fizeaux, Grand & Cie. on Franklin’s Orders: résumé, 26 August 1779
Author: Franklin, Benjamin
Date: 26 August 1779

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Cite as: “List of Articles Purchased by Fizeaux, Grand & Cie. on Franklin’s Orders: résumé, 26 August 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-30-02-0207. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 30, July 1 through October 31, 1779, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993, p. 264.]