Ebenezer Smith Platt to the American Commissioners
ADS: Massachusetts Historical Society
<Paris, April 21, 1778: The petitioner recounts his role in obtaining
the gunpowder landed at Savannah in 1775, and his
subsequent arrest and imprisonment in Jamaica and in England.
He was released through the efforts of a committee for
American prisoners, arrived in Paris destitute, and asks help in
getting home.>
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