From Benjamin Franklin: Certificate of Richard Vaux’s Oath of Allegiance (unpublished)
[July 26, 1782]

I hereby Certify, that Richard Vaux, has this Day taken before me, the Affirmation of Allegiance to the United States of America.

Given at Passy this 26th. Day of July 1782.

B Franklin
Minister Plenipoteny
from the United States
of America at the Court
of France
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