The American Commissioners to Vergennes
LS: Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; AL (draft): Massachusetts
Historical Society; two copies: National Archives
<Passy, May 16, 1778: We received this morning your letter of
the 13th about the Boston, and assure you that she is an American
warship maintained at the expense of Congress. The
King’s reply to the farmers general will, we assume, accord
with international usage.>
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