Docno: ADMS-06-07-02-0219
Author: Franklin, Benjamin
Author: Lee, Arthur
Author: Adams, John
Author: First Joint Commission at Paris
Recipient: Sartine, Antoine Raymond Jean Gualbert Gabriel de
Date: 1779-01-07
[dateline] Passy Jany 7. 1778 [i.e. 1779]
[salute] Sir
Your Excellency did Us the Honour to inform Us, sometime ago, that in order to obtain
the Liberty of Americans, taken on board of English Vessells by his Majestys ships
it was necessary, that We should inform your Excellency, that they had been made Prisoners
by the English and forced into their service.
1
We accordingly request the Liberty of William Berry, William Keating, John Williams,
Abraham Fairman, Robert Boughoss
[Bongass], John Hanlen
[Handly], James White, all Prisoners in Dinant Castle. These Persons, have most of them been
in the American service by sea or Land, and all have been taken Prisoners by the English
and forced into their service, as they affirm and We believe.
2
There is another Person Prisoner in Granville, whose Name is Jonathan Akin who was
taken Prisoner by <the> an English Frigate, and imprisoned for some Time at Portsmouth.