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To George Washington from Mr. Le Breton des Chapelles, 21 Aug. 1794 [letter not found]

Letter not found: from Mr. Le Breton des Chapelles, 21 Aug. 1794. On 9 Dec., George Taylor, Jr., wrote to Le Breton des Chapelles at Cologne, "By direction of the Secretary of State I have the honor to forward to you herein inclosed a statement of Colonel Ternant in answer to your letter to the President of the United States of the 21st August last" (DNA: RG 59, Diplomatic and Consular Instructions). The letter concerned a claim "originally of 813 dollars" for a Revolutionary War debt of the state of Virginia (see Jean-Baptiste, chevalier de Ternant, to Edmund Randolph, 3 Dec., DNA: RG 59, Notes from the French Legation).

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    To George Washington from Mr. Le Breton des Chapelles, 21 Aug. 1794 [letter not found]
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    Le Breton des Chapelles
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    Washington, George
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    21 August 1794

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    “To George Washington from Mr. Le Breton des Chapelles, 21 Aug. 1794 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-16-02-0408. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 16, 1 May–30 September 1794, ed. David R. Hoth and Carol S. Ebel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, p. 592.]