From Continental Congress (unpublished)

Ordered

In Congress December 21 1780

That the President write to our Ministers plenipotentiary at the Courts of Versailles and Madrid, desiring them to apply to the Courts at which they respectively reside to use means for obtaining the release and exchange of the honourable Henry Laurens.

Extract from the minutes

S. Huntington President

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