Benjamin Franklin Papers

The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New York Committee of Safety, 17 August 1775: résumé

The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New York Committee of Safety

LS:2 New York State Library, Albany

<August 17, 1775:3 We request you to receive and forward to Washington’s camp, as we have promised to do, the baggage of Major French and two other British officers on parole.4 We will pay the charges if the Major has already passed through New York; otherwise he will. Signed by Franklin for the committee.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. The MS has been through a fire, and part of each line is missing; we have summarized what is legible.

3. Penciled in the margin in a different hand from that of the text.

4. For the circumstances of their capture see the following document.

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    The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New York Committee of Safety, 17 August 1775: résumé
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    Pennsylvania Committee of Safety
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    New York Committee of Safety
    Date
    17 August 1775

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    “The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New York Committee of Safety, 17 August 1775: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-22-02-0100. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 22, March 23, 1775, through October 27, 1776, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London:: Yale University Press, 1982, p. 175.]