Benjamin Franklin Papers

Jonathan Williams, Jr., to the American Commissioners, 11 May 1778: résumé

Jonathan Williams, Jr., to the American Commissioners8

ALS: American Philosophical Society

<Brest, May 11, 1778: You will have heard the news of Capt. Jones. He needs about £2,000, he tells me, to equip the Drake before the French court intervenes; he can only draw on you.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 107–8.

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