[Paris] Friday 16th August 1776.
[Extract]
...I have seen the Controller General, the Farmers General, Mr Deane; everything is arranged. Mr Deane is persuaded that the vessels in question are coming only in order to furnish him with funds by the sale of their cargoes of salted fish. Another deputy and friend from Maryland has just arrived from Holland.2 He very quickly brought him to me. These gentlemen are sending from Paris a courier3 by way of Bordeaux for Congress, in a sloop, an excellent sailer....
1. Stevens, ed., Facsimiles, No. 1347.
2. William Carmichael of Maryland was not "another deputy."
3. William McCreery.