Musco Livingston to the American Commissioners
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Nantes, August 24, 1778: My illness since Capt. Tucker’s departure
prevented my writing you concerning three prizes he
sold to M. Puchelberg of Lorient, for Mr. Schweighauser’s account.
Puchelberg advised Tucker of the high duty on the
prize cargo of fish. Consequently Tucker permitted sale of the
fish and the three vessels for 30,000 livres, a sum far short of
the true value had provisions of the treaty with France been
observed. Acting for Tucker, I am inquiring for information
about the possibility of redress.>
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