Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from John Risdel, 19 February 1778: résumé

From John Risdel2

ALS: American Philosophical Society

<St. Malo, February 19, 1778: I served on the Reprisal for twenty months and was then in hospital for three. I am not yet able to do hard work, and lack clothes and cash; wages and prize money are due me. Please send me either money or a draft on a St. Malo merchant; I am in great need of help.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. A seaman left behind when Wickes sailed the previous September: Clark, Wickes, p. 376. Risdel was in line for passage home the following October (Deane Papers, II, 188), but must have been too ill to leave; we have found no indication that anything more was done for him.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from John Risdel, 19 February 1778: résumé
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    Risdel, John
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    19 February 1778

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from John Risdel, 19 February 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-25-02-0546. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 25, October 1, 1777, through February 28, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986, pp. 695–696.]