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Sir, I could not sooner send you the enclosed samples of the same cloth which I have sent to the Continent. I can deliver one hundred thousand ells of this material in different colors at 5#.2 6#. 7# per ell in French money. You will not be able to judge the quality and beauty of this cloth from the samples alone, but they will show you the colors.
We have also twenty thousand wool...
Date: 30 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have Recd the honor of your first letter of the 23d April By Capt [Gideon] Crawford, who arrived at Nantes In the Ship happy Return,2 we have made the Best Returns we Could of his Cargo. However we have not Sold to such advantage as we could have wish'd, but we hope nevertheless you will find your account in it, & that you will be Entirely Satisfied with Merchadize we Send you...
Date: 3 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have the Honour to write you by Capn Crawford of Rhode Island that Mr [Nichols] Brown of Providence consign'd to us at Nants, whoom we have dispatched with a Cargo of Powder Muskets salt peter &ca, who promis'd to deliver you this.
I had the honour to inform you in May last at my arrival in Europe of the success of my opperations, and of the advantageous dispositions I met with, now I will...
Date: 3 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Above is Copy of our last,2 since which have not had the Pleasure of hearing from you, this now Serves to Inform you that we this day dispatched your Schooner Sally Capt [Samuel] Avery, and by whom You will receive the Invoice & Sales of her Cargo, we are extreemly mortified that the duty on Oils are So grait, and which we where Oblig'd to pay on those recd by your two Vessels...
Date: 28 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have Established in france a house destinated only for the Correspondance with the united States. the honorable Continental Congress have been Supplied there already & they will take for the future all the Articles they Shall want for the army & other purposes. we believe Necessary to inform you that it is upon the Encouragement & the assurances we have Receiv'd from the Congress...
Date: 15 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have established in France a house the firme of Pliarne Penet & Co at Nantes destinated only for the Correspondence with the united states. the honorable Continental Congress have been supplied there already & they will take for the future all the Articles they shall want for the Army & other purposes.
We believe Necessary to inform you that it is upon the encouragement & the...
Date: 26 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Since writing the above 2 have heard the disagreeable news of an American Vessell being taken a going out of Bordeaux River, by an English frigate, who was laying in wait for her, One reports she is worth about Twenty thousand pounds Sterling, being loaded with Dry Goods, It is thought by most people here that information was given of her by some of our ennemies who knew the particular...
Date: 3 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I expected to have had the Honour of seeing you again soon as I promised you but the affairs of Government do not permit me to absent myself at present.
Mr Pennet [Pierre Penet] & myself shall dine to morrow with Mr [Samuel] Ward to whom we have the Letter which a Merchant of your place gave us on your account.
We were dissapointed at not finding your Brother at Phila he went from hence the...
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We have recd the Letter that you did Us the Honor to Write the 22d Decr & we Shod have answer'd it the Moment of its Reception; If Mr Cook [Nicholas Cooke, Jr.] had deliver'd it before he left Phila
We have terminated our Business with the Congress. Our Contract is passed with the Secret Committee & Mr Penet depar[ts] to day for France, Where he goes on Business for the Cont[in]ent. It...
Date: 8 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3