Letters from Ebenezer Smith Platt

Ebenezer Smith Platt to Benjamin Franklin, May 6, 1777

Newgate in London, May 6th. 1777. Sir, Nessessaty obliges me to trouble you to forward the Inclos’d letter, as I have the Misfortune to be detain’d a Prisner in Newgate,…

Ebenezer Smith Platt to Benjamin Franklin, December 27, 1777

Newgate Decemr. 27th: 1777. Honoured Sir, I beg leave to make you an humble tender of my most Sinceer, and Unfeigned Thanks, for your great Goodness in taking Notice of,…

Ebenezer Smith Platt to American Commissioners, April 21, 1778