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Title: Duportail, Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle to M. ______ de Bayet, 1791 June 1; No. 297 Louis Le Begue de Presle Du Portail to M. ______ de Bayet
Identifier(s): text:347201
Description: Orders him to join the regiment.; In French
Creator: Duportail, Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle, 1743-1802et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French
Date: 1791-06-01; 2021

Title: Dumas, Mathieu, comte to M. Pelle, 1814 December 2; No. 288 Mathieu, Comte de Dumas to M. Pelle
Identifier(s): text:347145
Description: Discusses the balance of payments for claims made to the Department of the Liquidation of the Armies.; In French
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French
Date: 1814-12-02; 2021

Title: Dumas, Mathieu, comte to M. Lemaire, 1814 September 17; No. 287 Mathieu, Comte de Dumas to M. Lemaire
Identifier(s): text:347177
Description: Informs him that requests for reimbursement without receipts and detailed statements of dates cannot be honored by the Department of the Liquidation of the Armies.; In French
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French
Date: 1814-09-17; 2021

Title: Tench Coxe; No. 207 Tench Coxe
Identifier(s): text:325893
Description: "Questions concerning the possible grounds of dissatisfaction on the part of France against the United States," enclosed in a letter [not present] to the President [John Adams].; "Private"
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Adams, John, 1735-1826; Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824
Date: 1797-04-05; 2021

Title: A table of French verbs...inscib'd to the American Philosophical Society
Identifier(s): text:314; local: APSimg6741; local: 269
Description: Extra oversized table of the conjugation of French verbs in various tenses, with models for regular and irregular verbs. Includes illustration: wood cut of ship approaching shore inscribed "they steer to Liberty's shores."
Creator: Carré, C. (Charles)et al
Subject: 973 C683 No. 37; Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Language; Grammar; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French--Dictionaries--French; French language--Grammar; Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1780

Title: Morris, Robert to Benjamin Franklin, 1782 September 27; No. 965 Robert Morris to Benjamin Franklin
Identifier(s): text:353379
Description: Encloses copies [not present] of the Congressional resolutions of 14 and 23 Sept. and instructs him in detail regarding the loan from France; points out that although the English prejudice against the French had taken deep root in the minds of Americans, the conduct of Britain has resulted in American attachments being transferred from Britain to France; complains about the smallness of the sum raised through taxation and that in order to remain popular, American leaders support the people's opposition to taxation: "The love of Popularity is our endemical Disease."; "4th [Copy)"
Creator: Morris, Robert, 1734-1806et al
Subject: Taxation; Loans; Great Britain--Relations--France; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1782-09-27; 2023

Title: Dumas, Mathieu, comte to General Alexandre Berthier, 1801 November 17; No. 286 Mathieu, Comte de Dumas to General Alexandre Berthier
Identifier(s): text:347199
Description: Transmits the request of Philippe Segur for promotion to a lieutenancy.; In French
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Berthier, Louis-Alexandre, 1753-1815; Ségur, Louis-Philippe de, 1753-1830
Date: 1801-11-17; 2021

Title: Huntington, Samuel to the President of Delaware (Caesar Rodney), 1780 June 15; No. 603 Samuel Huntington to the President of Delaware (Caesar Rodney)
Identifier(s): text:349012
Description: Urges that Delaware exert itself in supplying men and provisions for the American cause and mentions the loss of Charleston, [S.C.] and cooperation with the French fleet and army.; "Circular."
Creator: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784
Date: 1780-06-15; 2022

Title: Howe, Richard, Lord to John Douglas, 1782 June 7; No. 560 Lord Richard Howe to John Douglas
Identifier(s): text:348767
Description: Orders him to strictly comply with a specified article of capitulation made with the French for the islands of St. Christopher and Nevis, [W.I.] regarding not molesting neutral or British vessels that trade with the captured islands.
Creator: Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799et al
Subject: Frigate Bay, Battle of, Saint Kitts and Nevis, 1782; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French
Date: 1782-06-07; 2022

Title: Huntington, Jedediah to Jabez Huntington, 1776 February 19; No. 592 Jedediah Huntington to Jabez Huntington
Identifier(s): text:348924
Description: Informs him that a Prussian officer [Frederick William, baron de Woedtke?] is in camp who recently came from France by way of the West Indies and who reported that news of the American expedition • against St. Johns, [Canada] was very pleasing to the French; informs him that the Prussian officer also reported that the West Indian islands are filled with French troops and that the French are apprehensive that the British are using the war in America as a pretense to build up a large force and "then. . . fall upon them at unawares"; encloses a letter [not present] toDr. [David H. or Gibbons] Jewett who is appointed surgeon of Jedediah Huntington's regiment that urges the doctor to join the regiment immediately if he accepts the appointment.
Creator: Huntington, Jedediah, 1743-1818et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; Huntington, Jabez, 1719-1786
Date: 1776-02-19; 2022

Title: Morris, Robert to Benjamin Franklin, 1782 October 1; No. 966 Robert Morris to Benjamin Franklin
Identifier(s): text:353478
Description: Discusses procuring a French ship-of-the-line to safely convoy money to America.
Creator: Morris, Robert, 1734-1806et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1782-10-01; 2023

Title: Humphreys, David to Nathanael Greene, 1780 May 23; No. 577 David Humphreys to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): text:348974
Description: Presents him with a copy [not present] of Humphreys's poem [Poem, Addressed To The Armies of the United States of America (1780)] and mentions that a copy was also addressed to [George Washington]; recommends [Joel) Barlow for a vacant chaplaincy in one of the brigades; informs him that in consequence of the reported arrival of the French fleet, Humphreys will probably accept an offer to join Greene's military family.
Creator: Humphreys, David, 1752-1818et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786
Date: 1780-05-23; 2022

Title: Washington, George to George Bryan, 1778 May 28; No. 1532 George Washington to George Bryan
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:686
Description: Sends condolences on the death of the President of the [Pennsylvania] Council [Thomas Wharton, Jr.]; informs him that Washington will advise the Council if the marquis de Lafayette leaves the army and accepts an appointment as ambassador to the United States from the court of France; postscript: recommends that if the British evacuate Philadelphia, the civil authority of Pennsylvania establish itself as soon as possible in the city in order to protect private property and "Citizens of every denomination."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778; Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Date: 1778-05-28; 2021

Title: Maxwell, Solomon to Henry Hollingsworth, 1781 November 30; No. 926 Solomon Maxwell to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:353661
Description: Discusses paying wagoners for carting flour and other goods for the French army and mentions that the wagoners "begin to complain that this business will be like the Continental Debts"; informs him about the arrival of hospital stores and flour and also that shallops are transporting heavy artillery.
Creator: Maxwell, Solomon, -approximately 1827et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1781-11-30; 2023

Title: Habersham, James to John Habersham, 1782 March 13; No. 447 James Habersham to John Habersham
Identifier(s): text:347697
Description: Friendly letter; informs him that the French legion under [Armand-Louis de Gontaut, duc del Lauzun has been in the county nearly two months and will soon move to Petersburg, [Va.] and mentions that Gen [Lachlan] McIntosh is also in the county.
Creator: Habersham, James, 1745-1799et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Habersham, John, 1754-1805; Biron, Armand-Louis de Gontaut, duc de, 1747-1793; McIntosh, Lachlan, 1725-1806
Date: 1782-05-13; 2022

Title: Hancock, John to "Dolly" (Dorothy Quincy Hancock), 1778 August 10; No. 511 John Hancock to "Dolly" (Dorothy Quincy Hancock)
Identifier(s): text:348013
Description: Informs her that the French fleet is engaged with Lord [Richard] Howe's fleet from New York: "an exceeding heavy Fire indeed"; mentions that Hancock is going to see Gen. [John] Sullivan.
Creator: Hancock, John, 1737-1793et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Hancock, Dorothy Quincy, 1747-1830; Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799; Sullivan, John, 1740-1795
Date: 1778-08-10; 2022

Title: Adams, Dr. Samuel to Sally Preston Adams, 1778 August 5; No. 29 Dr. Samuel Adams to Sally Preston Adams
Identifier(s): text:346204
Description: Friendly letter; mentions that he will soon go to camp at White Plains, [N.Y.] where he hopes to receive wages; mentions the "unparalleled barbarity and worse than Diabolical behavior of the Tories & Savages at Wyoming [Pa.]"; mentions "the Fruitless attempt of George's Commissioners" [the Carlisle peace commission] to bribe several members of Congress and remarks that it appears the British despair of conquering America by arms; mentions troops that moved from White Plains to Rhode Island and a report that the French fleet also went there; describes the High Dutch of Pennsylvania and mentions that "the women do most of the hard work"; informs her that he is now among a "clever" sort of people but still misses New England.
Subject: Diplomacy; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Pennsylvania Dutch
Date: 1778-08-05; 2022

Title: Adams, Dr. Samuel to Sally Preston Adams, 1778 July 19, 20; No. 28 Dr. Samuel Adams to Sally Preston Adams
Identifier(s): text:346195
Description: Informs her that Gen. [Henry] Knox ordered him to Englishtown to attend a wounded officer and mentions other wounded officers; describes the village of Englishtown and mentions that its situation makes fever and ague flourish and that the place is naturally poor and rendered poorer because the army encamped there a few days; informs her that he went to see two Tories executed at Monmouth Court House, [N.J.) "but they were turned off a few minutes before I arrived"; mentions the arrival of the French ambassador to Congress [Conrad Alexandre Gerard) and the arrival of the French fleet off Sandy Hook; expresses hope that the British will leave America in a few months and that each Continental regiment will be sent to its own state; [postscript): informs her that when the British marched through New Jersey they burned houses and plundered "without distinction of Whig or Tory" and remarks: "fine! encouragement for Tories."
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Knox, Henry, 1750-1806; Conrad-Alexandre Gérard (1729-1790)
Date: 1778-07; 2022

Title: Murray, James to Lord George Townshend, 1782 September 1; No. 992 James Murray to Lord George Townshend
Identifier(s): text:353422
Description: Recounts several complaints made by Loyalists regarding their treatment by the British and their role in the war; proposes a detailed plan in which Britain "should lay down the Constitution of a loyal American Congress on the same footing & Powers. . . as the rebel Congress is invested with from it's Constituents," thereby freeing the British to fight the French, and suggests that the loyal congress appoint [Benedict] Arnold commander-in-chief.
Creator: Murray, James, 1721-1794et al
Subject: American loyalists; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807; Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801
Date: 1782-09-01; 2023

Title: Laneuville, Louis Pierre Penot Lombart, Chevalier de to William Temple Franklin, 1781 January 7; Laneuville, Louis Pierre Penot Lombart, Chevalier de. to William Temple Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:25233
Description: Letter from Louis Laneuville to William Temple Franklin. Thanking him and Dr. Franklin for the latter's letter of recommendation, which had a good effect on the Ministers at Versailles.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Social networks--18th century; United States--Social conditions--18th century; United States--Foreign relations--1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Laneuville, Louis Pierre Penot Lombart, Chevalier de; Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823
Date: 1781-01-07; 2022