[ca. April 1778]
No. 21
Invoice of 12 Nine Pound Cannon, Ship’d by Jonathan Williams on board the Continental Brig Independence John Young Esqr. Commander bound for North America, on Accot. and risk of Congress, And consigned to their Order—
Copy, CtY, Jonathan Williams Account Books. Number 21 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— J.J. JN. J.C. J.G.” The initials are those of Joshua Johnson, Jonathan Nesbitt, James Cuming, and Joseph Gridley. 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. Presumably the amounts are reckoned in pounds.
