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To Benjamin Franklin from Stephen Case, [22 March 1784]

From Stephen Case3

ALS: American Philosophical Society

[March 22, 1784]4

I Do hereby Certify to you that the name Signd is in the proper hand writeing of my Daughter who has Long been Desirious of writeing to your Honour. She is a fine Beautifull Child of fine witt and Exceeding apt to Learn more So than any one of my Children to the amount of 11 which I have had born to me.

From Sir your unknown friend

Stephen Case

To Doctor Benjamin Franklin Esq

Addressed: To Doctor / Benjamin Franklin Esq / Near or at Paris / in old France— / Pr. Packet

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. Stephen Case (1738–1794) was appointed to the Newburgh Committee of Safety and Observation in 1775 and served as an officer in the Ulster County militia during the Revolution: Ruth P. Heidgerd, Ulster County in the Revolution … ([New Paltz, N.Y.], 1977), p. 34; Edward M. Ruttenber and Lewis H. Clark, comps., History of Orange County, New York … (1881; reprint, 2 vols., Interlaken, N.Y., 1980), I, 256.

4. This letter accompanied the one immediately above. The date was written in pencil at the top of the letter but in a different hand.

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Stephen Case, [22 March 1784],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-42-02-0042. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 42, March 1 through August 15, 1784, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 70.]