John Bondfield to the American Commissioners
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Bordeaux, September 15, 1778: The cutter Tartar, Captain
Southcomb, arrived yesterday from the York River, which it
left on July 29. Southcomb reports d’Estaing had taken five
English frigates and that New York was closely blockaded and
would doubtless fall. [Postscripts:] Captain Ayres died on the
13th; I had him buried as decently as is allowed to Protestants.
I will forward Mr. W.T. Franklin’s commission this week.>
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