To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Digges, 7 March 1780
From Thomas Digges
ALS: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
London 7 Mar. 1780
Dr. Sir
I am to beg the favour of you to inform me by first post, If the following American bills of Exa. are good ones; They are lodgd in my hands by a Countryman who waits to know their fate; that is, whether others of the same tenor & date have, or have not been paid. A letter sent to the former direction by Post, W.S. C—— at N——os Coffee Ho.7 with such information will greatly oblige Sr. Your Most Obt. Servant
WS. C
| No. 27— | For 30 Dolls. | dated feby. 23d 1779—Payle to Jona Warner countersignd Nicholas Gilman for State of N Hampshire—8 |
| 26— | For 30 Dolls. | dated, payable, & countersignd, as above |
| 25— | For 30 Dolls | Do Do Do |
| 166— | For 24 Dollars | dated Feby. 15. 1779—payable to Jonan Warner, countersignd Nat Appleton Massachusts.9 N.B. the above are all seconds— |
| No. 173 | For 24 Dollars | dated Feby 23 1779 payle to Peter Boilston Adams,1 countersignd by Natl Appleton Massachusets bay. N.B. this is a first bill. |
| 138 Drs. |
Addressed: Monsieur / Monsieur B. Franklin / Passy
Notations: M. Digges 11. Mars. 1780. Londone. / March 7 1780 / ansd 20. Mar 802
7. William Singleton Church, Nandos Coffee House.
8. Warner may have been the Jonathan Warner (d. 1803) who was a brigadier general of Mass. militia: Francis B. Heitman, ed., Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution … (rev. ed., Baltimore, 1982), p. 569; Robert A. Feer, Shays’s Rebellion (New York and London, 1988), p. 323. Nicholas Gilman was commissioner of the state continental loan office: Frank C. Mevers, ed., The Papers of Josiah Bartlett (Hanover, N.H., 1979), p. 154.
9. Nathaniel Appleton (1713–98), son of the Rev. Nathaniel Appleton (XXI, 226n), was commissioner of the continental loan office for Massachusetts: Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, XII, 355–9.
1. Peter Boylston Adams (1738–1823), JA’s younger brother: Butterfield, John Adams Diary, I, 66n.
2. On that date BF wrote Digges that all of Warner’s other bills had been presented by Mr. Knox (William Knox, XXX, 97n) and paid on Sept. 24, 1779. Bill No. 173, however, had not yet arrived. Library of Congress.