Testimony in a Prize Case
D: National Archives
[October 14, 1776]

Doctor Benjamin Franklin being examined declared that he remembered hearing Seth Jenkins examined in the House of Lords on the Prohibitory Bill...that the Testimony he gave in the Course of his Examination was in Favour of the Merchants’ Petition and such as shewed the said Jenkins to be a Friend to America. [In the margin:] Evid. of Doct. Franklyn.

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