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3. This was Henry Bromfield Jr. of Boston, who had set off for England and France in July to settle his father's accounts ( Cal. Franklin Papers, A.P.S. , 2:272). Bromfield reached Amsterdam in early 1781 and there formed part of the mercantile firm of Sigourney, Ingraham, & Bromfield, which JA later commissioned to obtain a house suitable for the American legation (JA, Diary and Autobiography , 2:453–454).