American Peace Commissioners to Wilhem & Jan (business) Willink, May 22, 1783

Paris may 22. 1783

Gentlemen,

Mr. Grand, has laid before us, a State of the affairs of the United States under his
Care, 9 and the Demands upon him for
money to discharge the Bills drawn upon him, are such as to require some assistance from
you, if the Demands upon you will admit of it. If therefore, the State of the Cash in
your Hands compared with the Draughts made upon you, will allow of it, We advise you, to
remit to Mr. Grand on account of the United States the Amount of five hundred Thousand
Livres Tournois, and we doubt not that Congress and their Minister of Finances, will
approve of it, although we have not in strictness Authority to give orders for it.

We have the honor to be, Gentlemen, &c

To Messrs. Wilhem & Jean Willink, Nicholas and Jacob Van
Staphorst, & De La Lande & Fynge, Bankers of the United States of America at
Amsterdam.