Peter Collas to the American Commissioners
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Passy, October 8, 1778: Last August 6 I left here for Nantes
and sailed on the 29th for Boston on the Dispatch, Corbin
Barnes, master. I was captured on September 1, and taken into
Guernsey; I made my way from there to England and finally
to Calais. My trunk was searched and a number of articles
were held on the supposition that they were made in England.
These articles are of French manufacture, purchased in
Nantes. I need your assistance to recover them.>
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