Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Sr., 14 October 1779

From Jonathan Williams, Sr.

ALS: American Philosophical Society

Boston Octr. the 14. 1779

Hond. sr—

The Bearer mr. Jeremiah Allen5 a neighbour & a most worthy acquaintance of ours, comes to France Partley on Business & on pleasure, I take the Liberty to Recommend him warmly to your Civilities Which will ad to the many Obligations allready Confer’d on Your Dutyfull Nephew & Hble Servant

Jona Williams

Doctr. Benja Franklin Esqr

Notation: Jona. Williams. Boston Oct 14. 1779

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. A merchant hoping to establish business connections in Spain and France, he traveled to Europe aboard the Sensible with the Adams party, JA said of him, “There is a Softness, and a Melancholly, in his face, which indicates a Goodness”: Butterfield, Adams Correspondence, III, 246n; Butterfield, John Adams Diary, II, 402.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Sr., 14 October 1779
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    14 October 1779

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Sr., 14 October 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-30-02-0417. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 30, July 1 through October 31, 1779, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993, p. 536.]

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