286 Miscellaneous Papers 



5j; Joseph Wharton, Jr. 1779. April 9. Passy. 

 Oath of allegiance to the United States. D. S. i p. LXXIV, 33. 



By Samuel Wharton. 1779. April 9. Passy. 

 Oath of allegiance to the United States. D. S. i p. LXXIV, 34. 



By Joseph Dobson. 1779. April 9. Passy. 

 Oath of allegiance to the United States. D. S. i p. LXXIV, 13. 



From Various Persons to The President of the Congress of the 

 United States. From 1779, April 12 to 1785, May 23. Passy. 



Promissory notes for money received from Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 

 Minister Plenipotentiary of the said States. LXV, 1-128. 



From Merchants of Newburyport, Massachusetts. 

 1779. April 12. Newburyport. 



Affidavit that the armed privateer brigantine " Fair Play," mounting 

 twelve four-pounders, was built in 1777, and from then until she was 

 sunk off Guadaloupe, in January, 1779, she was believed to be the 

 property of Tristram Dalton, John Coffin Jones, Daniel Sargent, Ebe- 

 nezer Parsons and Joseph Marquand ; and that being ballasted with 

 bar lead and victualed for a five months' cruise for sixty men, at the 

 time of her sailing in the preceding November, was of the value of 

 twenty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six Spanish milled dollars, 

 and that she would have sold for that sum. Attested by Nicolas Pike, 

 Justice of the Peace. Accompanied by a certificate, signed by the 

 members of the Council of Massachusetts, testifying to the official 

 character of Nicolas Pike. D. S. Stephen Hooper, Samuel Batchelder, 

 Will[ia]m Coombs, Tho[ma]s Thomas. D. S. 2 p. (In triplicate.) 



LIV, 23. 



By Captain Charles G[ustav]e Berg to The Admiralty Judges. 



1779. April 20. Morlaix. 



Petition asking that measures be taken to save his Swedish vessel, 

 " La Victoire." D. 4 p. (In French. Certified copy.) L VII, 26. 



