The American Commissioners to Sartine
Copies: Massachusetts Historical Society, National Archives (three),
Library of Congress
<Passy, January 2, 1779: We are obliged for the concern you
expressed on December 22 for the American prisoners escaping
from England. Our agents in Bordeaux, Brest, Lorient,
Nantes and Dunkirk, as well as a volunteer in Calais, assist
them. We will reimburse your commissaries engaged in this
relief as we would our own personnel. There is little likelihood
that prisoners will enter other ports. The regulation you
propose relative to the Englishmen whom we capture is
agreeable to us, and our agents will accordingly deliver them
to the persons you appoint, who require written orders from
you.>
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