From Benjamin Franklin: Certificate re John Paradise (unpublished)

I do hereby certify whom it may concern that the within is a true Copy of the Oath of Allegiance to the United States taken and signed by John Paradise Esqr. before me when their Minister in France, the Original of which is now in my Possession here. Given at Philadelphia, this third Day of August, in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Eighty-nine

B Franklin

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