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Beaumez, Bon-Albert Briois de (1759-ca. 1809) to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.06911 Author/Creator: Beaumez, Bon-Albert Briois de (1759-ca. 1809) Place Written: Calcutta, India Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 10 February 1797 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; 22.4 x 18.5 cm. Order a Copy

Writes a letter of introduction for a Captain Turner, who has been living in India and will stop in America before continuing on to Europe.

B. Beaumez, the husband of Sarah Lyons Flucker Beaumez, is most likely Bon-Albert Briois de Beaumez (also spelled "Beaumetz"), a travelling companion of Talleyrand and former President of the French National Constituent Assembly.

Beaumez, M. de (Bon-Albert Briois), 1759-1809
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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