Geoffroy Chalut de Verin to the American Commissioners, [before 6 January 1778]
Geoffroy Chalut de Vérin6 to the American Commissioners
AL: American Philosophical Society
[Before January 6, 17787]
Chalut de Verin prie Messieurs Franklin, Monsieur Dean et Le Chevalier Lée de lui faire l’honneur de venir diner [mardi 6] janvier Jour des Roix.
Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur Benjamin Franklin / A Passy
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
6. The farmer general: above, XXIV, 348 n.
7. The “Jour des Roix” or Epiphany, Jan. 6, must have been in 1778: a year earlier BF was not in Passy, and a year later Deane and Lee were no longer with him.