Abraham Livingston to the American Commissioners
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Charleston, October 20, 1778: I wrote you on June 10 and
22 that the commercial committee of Congress had ordered
several vessels from here. The Flammand’s officers and crew
refused to sail here from Massachusetts, the Mellish was destroyed
by the British at Bedford, and the ship Hayfield and
brigantine Minerva have been ordered to the West Indies. My
hopes of sending remittances to France on the public account
are frustrated; I will advise you whenever anything further
occurs in the mercantile line.>
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