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The Commissioners to John Gilbank
Docno: PJA07d162
Recipient: Gilbank, John
Date: 1778-11-10
[dateline] Passy Novr. 10. 1778
[salute] Sir
We have received your Letter of October the sixth, and wish it was in our Power to do more for officers in your situation than We do, altho that amounts in the whole to a large sum. But as We have al•
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ready lent you as much Money as We have <lent>
1 been able to lend to other officers of your Rank and in your Circumstances, <it is not in our Power>
2 we cannot without a blameable Partiality <to> lend you any more. We, are, sir your most obedient humble servants3
3. On 12 Sept. the Commissioners had ordered that 360 livres be paid to Gilbank (vol. 6:360). Their refusal to provide additional funds was not unusual, for on 11 Nov. (LbC, Adams Papers) they wrote an almost identical letter to Capt. William Hamilton and Lt. John Welch who, through payments approved on 30 Sept. and 10 Oct., had together received 1,032 livres (vol. 6:361).
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/