Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 8 February 1782

From Jonathan Williams, Jr.

ALS: American Philosophical Society

Nantes Feb. 8. 1782

Dear & hond sir

My Friend Mr Grubb7 will have the pleasure to present this & I beg Leave to recommend him to your Notice & Civility.

This Gentleman proposes a settlement in France in the Commercial Line in Company with Mr Hazlehurst,8 & I doubt not will ever merit the Attention you may think proper to honour him with, which will particularly oblige

Dear & hond sir Your dutifull & Affect Kinsman

Jona Williams J

Notation: Jona. Williams. Nantes Feby. 8. 1782.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. James Grubb, who established a mercantile business at Nantes: XXVIII, 57–8n; JW to Grubb, Feb. 6, 1782 (Yale University Library).

8. The Philadelphia merchant Isaac Hazelhurst, Sr.: XXXIII, 463n; XXXV, 455. BF gave both men letters of introduction to Holker; see the latter’s Feb. 27 letter.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 8 February 1782
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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 8 February 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-36-02-0386. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 36, November 1, 1781, through March 15, 1782, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001, p. 553.]

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