Benjamin Franklin Papers

Joseph Belton: Receipt, 13 February 1779

Joseph Belton: Receipt7

DS:8 American Philosophical Society

Passy, Feb. 13. 1779

Receiv’d of B Franklin, Fifty Louis d’ors on Account of Public Service to the United States which I have undertaken to perform.—

Jos. Belton

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. Belton and the gun which he was peddling are discussed in our annotation to Le Roy’s letter, above, under Jan. 20.

8. In BF’s hand.

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    “Joseph Belton: Receipt, 13 February 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-28-02-0447. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 28, November 1, 1778, through February 28, 1779, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990, p. 532.]