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Title: Bordeaux, 12 Aug. 1778. ALS to Pocquet de Puilhery
Place of Origin: Bordeaux (Aquitaine, France)
Date: 1778-08-12
Series Heading: M258. Texier, Mme., fl. 1778.
Geography: West Indies, Unspecified
Subject: Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Orvilliers, M. le comte d' (Louis Guillouet), -- 1708-1792, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- French participation, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations, Ushant, Battle of, 1778, Coffee trade, West Indies -- History
Notes: "Dear Sir I am now to acknowledge the Receipt of yr very kind and obliging Letter... It will give me pleasure to hear that [all your family] have been carried safely thro the Small-pox... His most Xtian Majesty it seems hath concluded a Treaty of Friend Ship between France and the United States of America..." signed "David Jeffries", Original digital object name: bei-m258, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

Title: Guadeloupe, 12 Nov. 1778. ALS to "Monsieur terrason Negt. a york...
Place of Origin: Guadeloupe
Date: 1778-11-12
Series Heading: M261. Pléville Le Pelley, Georges René, 1726-1805.
Geography: Guadeloupe
Subject: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- French participation, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations, France -- History, Naval -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800, France. Marine -- History -- 18th century, Ship captains -- France -- Biography, Grand Languedoc (Ship), Merchants -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 18th century, West Indies -- History
Notes: Samuel Barrett and Co. (firm).Cannon, beef, and rum., Original digital object name: bei-m261, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

Title: Lettre de m de Rochambeau fils quil demande Les Boules de m Le Gouverneur Genl. de St. domingue (docket title)
Place of Origin: Cap-Français (Haiti)
Date: 1792-10-07
Series Heading: M353. Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph, vicomte de, fl. 1792.
Geography: Saint-Domingue
Subject: Military appointments, Military attache´s, Employment references, Grasse, Franc¸ois Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Kings and rulers -- Children, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- French participation, Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804, France -- Colonies -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo, West Indies -- History
Notes: "L'amitié qui liait mon père avec Monsieur de Grasse Lieutenant Général des Armés Navales, les services que ce général a rendu à l'Indépendance Américaine..." sont des titres qui autorisent le fils du célèbre Amiral, à demander à ître attaché au Commandant en chef de l'Expédition de St. Domingue. Rochambeau se fait "le garant de sa bravoure et de son patriotisme.", Original digital object name: bei-m353, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

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