Penet, D’Acosta freres & Cie. to the American Commissioners, 3 September 1778: résumé

Penet, D’Acosta freres & Cie.8 to the American Commissioners

ALS: American Philosophical Society

<Nantes, September 3, 1778, in French: We are enclosing a letter for you brought from Boston by our ship Le Courier de l’Europe and renew our offer of services.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8. Penet’s new partners in Nantes. D’Acosta frères were a Nantes merchant firm which was engaged to a significant degree in transatlantic trade: Villiers, Commerce colonial, p. 405.

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Source Project: Franklin Papers
Title: Penet, D’Acosta freres & Cie. to the American Commissioners, 3 September 1778: résumé
Author: Penet, D’Acosta frères & Cie.
Recipients: American Commissioners
Franklin, Benjamin
Lee, Arthur
Adams, John
Date: 3 September 1778

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Cite as: “Penet, D’Acosta freres & Cie. to the American Commissioners, 3 September 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-27-02-0323. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 27, July 1 through October 31, 1778, ed. Claude A. Lopez. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988, p. 343.]