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Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 7
Docno: ADMS-06-07-02-0186
Recipient: Franklin, Benjamin
Recipient: Lee, Arthur
Recipient: Adams, John
Recipient: First Joint Commission at Paris
Date: 1778-12-14
Benjamin Gunnison to the Commissioners
[dateline] Brigt Morris Roscoff 14 Decem 1778
[salute] Dear Sir
I have just arrived and tak the Liberty To Right to your Honour to in form you of
The Condision of the Brig morris. After a Passig of forty two Days I have arrived
in Roscoff In the Province of Britancy and shall weight your in structions. I did
intend for Nants or Bourdaux but from violant gaills of wind I had on this Coast have
been obliged to { 274 } make this port as my Riggin and sails are much Dammiged on the passig by voilant gails
of wind. But I belive they would answar to Carry with a llittal Repair the Brigg To
Carry hur to Morlaix should you Chuse to have hur Carried to that place as it not
above four Leags Distance from wheir she now lays. I am Dear Sr your very humb to
Serve and Obey
[signed] Benja Gunnison1
Post Crip
Sr as the Kings frigget Serin Commanded by Mr Cunat Dumeny Esqr2 is now hear and Expects to stay should the wind not shift befour I Receve your answar
he offars his servis to Escort the Brig to Nants or Bourdaux.
1. No reply has been found, but on 28 Dec. the Morlaix mercantile firm of Cornic et fils,
having twice written to Franklin with no reply, wrote to the Commissioners asking
advice on what action to take regarding the Morris and its cargo of tobacco (PPAmP: Franklin Papers). On 2 Jan. the Commissioners informed J. D. Schweighauser of the
Morris' arrival and ordered him to weigh the tobacco, deliver it to the Farmers General,
and reimburse Cornic et fils, who were informed of these orders in a letter of the
same day, for any money advanced to the Morris (both LbC, Adams Papers). On 14 Jan. the Commissioners wrote to Gunnison, ordering him to deliver his cargo
to Schweighauser and to follow Schweighauser's instructions insofar as they did not
conflict with his orders from the congress (LbC, Adams Papers).
2. Presumably Gunnison is referring to the French corvette Serin commanded by Duménil (Vicomte de Noailles, Marins et soldats français en Amérique pendant la guerre de l'indepéndence des Etats-Unis,
1778–1783, Paris, 1903, p. 374).
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, 2015.
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