From Benjamin Franklin: Form for Promissory Note (unpublished)
PASSY,               178

I Promise to pay to the Honourable the Superintendent of Finances, for the Time being, of the United States of America,                 Livres Tournois, which I have received here from Benjamin Franklin, Esquire, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Said States; and for which I have signed three Notes, all of this Tenor and Date: one of which being paid, the others are to be void. THIRD. of the State of        taken in the       belonging to         of

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