From Friedrich Barnzen
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Hamburg, August 29, 1777, in German: Your exalted qualities,
well known even here, lead me to offer myself as a useful
American subject. I was born in Hamburg, have fluent German
and Dutch and a reading knowledge of French, and was
trained to commerce from my youth; my money is gone,
through misfortune, but my good name remains. I was in the
Prussian commissary in 1756, then for the rest of the war in
British employ under Ferdinand of Brunswick, learning about
supply magazines; I am now a civilian in the Hanoverian government.
Nothing would please me more than to serve the
United States in America or Europe, in commerce or supply
as you may prefer.>
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