[ca. April 1778]
No. 12
Invoice of Sundries bought and Ship’d by order of the Honble. the Commissioners of the United States, on board the Dutchess of de Grammont, Poidrass, Commander, bound for North America, on Accot. & risk of Congress, And consign’d to their Order—
As the above were bought of various Persons in Town & Country the Sellers are not particularly specified to each Article they were as follows—
Copy, CtY, Jonathan Williams Account Books. Number 12 in “Accounts and Vouchers Refer’d to in the Account Current between Jonathan Williams Junr. and the Honble. The Commissioners of the United States of America.”
1. Notation: “Compared & approved Nantes 17th. Augst. 1779} (sign’d) J.J. JN. J:C—” The initials are those of Joshua Johnson, Jonathan Nesbitt, and James Cuming. They were merchants who, in the summer of 1779, at the request of Benjamin Franklin, audited Williams’s accounts with the American Commissioners in France.
