William Castle: Petition to the American Commissioners
DS: American Philosophical Society
<[Bordeaux, before June 22, 1778:] Your petitioner came from
Ireland to Bordeaux, to obtain American papers for his voyage
home with a cargo. The French authorities seized my ship because
it was under British colors, and will probably confiscate
it unless the government intervenes. The vessel belongs to me
and my brother; we bought it to go to America. Many Philadelphia
gentlemen know us, including John Ross at Nantes. If
you do not help us we shall be ruined by losing everything
“that we have bin Long plowing the Oacen for”; God knows
what will happen to our family.>
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