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
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.