Benjamin Guild to John Adams, January 18, 1782
L’Orient Jan. 18. 1782 I had the happiness of arriving here safe in the Alliance, evening before last, after a passage of twenty three days. In her came passengers the…
Benjamin Guild (1749-1792) was a bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th century. He ran the "Boston Book Store" and a circulating subscription library in the 1780s and 1790s at no.59 Cornhill, "first door south of the Old-Brick Meeting-House."
L’Orient Jan. 18. 1782 I had the happiness of arriving here safe in the Alliance, evening before last, after a passage of twenty three days. In her came passengers the…
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