The American Commissioners to Sartine
AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; copies: Library of Congress,
National Archives (two)
<Passy, January 7, 1779: Your Excellency informed us that in
order to gain the release of Americans captured by French
ships it was necessary to demonstrate that they had been prisoners
of the English and forced into English service. The following
prisoners at Dinan meet those requirements: William
Berry, William Keating, John Williams, Abraham Fairman,
Robert Boughass, John Hanlen, James White and, at Granville,
Jonathan Akin.>
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