To Benjamin Franklin from John Stuart et al., 14 February 1780

From John Stuart et al.5

LS: American Philosophical Society

Dunkerque The 14th. Feby: 1780.

May it Please Your Excellency.

We Humbly beg to Express to Your Excellency Our Gratitude for the Liberty granted us for to Serve with Capt. Ryan on Board of his Cutter the Fear not. We Solemny Promise to Your Excellency to be faithfull in Our Services to the Brave Capt. Ryan & To be ever true to Our Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America, which we Now make in the Hands of your Excellency, with our Warmest acknowledgments to have empowerded us to do The Same, & Therewith follow our Inclination.

We Are with due Respect May it Please Your Excellency Your Most Obedient & most Humble Servants

John Stuart
Daniel Sweney
James Farragher
Walter Roach
Edward Sweney his mark X
George Moor his mark X
William Ohasse(?) his mark X

His Excellency Doctr. Franklin

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. Seven of the eight Irish prisoners recently released in order to serve with Capt. Luke Ryan; see BF’s Feb. 5 letters to d’Anglemont and Ryan.

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Title: To Benjamin Franklin from John Stuart et al., 14 February 1780
Author: Stuart, John
Recipient: Franklin, Benjamin
Date: 14 February 1780

Reference

Cite as: “To Benjamin Franklin from John Stuart et al., 14 February 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-31-02-0357. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 31, November 1, 1779, through February 29, 1780, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995, pp. 486–487.]