From William Temple Franklin: Receipt (unpublished)
July 26, 1785.

Then borrowed and received of my Grandfather, Benjamin Franklin, the Sum of Forty eight Thousand livres Tournois, by a Bill of Exchange drawn by him on his Banker Mr. Grand at Paris, to enable me to purchase my Father’s Lands in New Jersey and New York; for which Sum I promise to give my said Grandfather a Mortgage on the said Lands on my Arrival in Philadelphia.

Two Notes of this Tenor being sign’d to serve for One.

W. T. Franklin

Mr. Vaughan is requested, in case of our Miscarriage in the Voyage, to remit this Note to Mr. Jay my Executor, residing at New York, or to Mr. Grand Banker at Paris.

B Franklin

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