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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 to unknown

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00496.159 Author/Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Place Written: Paris, France Type: Manuscript document Date: March 1, 1777 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 23 cm, Width: 19 cm Order a Copy

This manuscript is a copy (possibly a draft) of part of an 01 March 1777 memorandum from American commissioners Benjamin Franklin and to Silas Deane to French foreign minister Vergennes, as they negotiated a contract with the Farmers General of France. [An autograph copy of the full memo is in the Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères of France, according to the Franklin Papers at the American Philosophical Society.]

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Deane, Silas, 1737-1789

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