"commissioned...to take care of buying and shipping a good armonica"
| Date: | 1772, Jan 17 |
| From: | William Outram (London) |
| To: | (Ship's Log) |
| PBF: | 19: 38 |
William Outram was a merchant captain, master of the Virginia vessel Liberty.
Has been commissioned by the Rev. Mr. Dunlap to take care of buying and shipping a good armonica for Dunlap's son Benjamin, organist in his father's church in Virginia, and to ask Franklin where such an instrument might be had; should be obliged to have the information addressed to him at the bar of the Virginia Coffee House.