This Day in History: September 30

P.S. The Marquis de la fayette having informed me that in Consequence of the Exchange of Lord Cornwallis, he had made a Conditional Exchange of his Lordships Family, grounded on the approbation of Doctr Franklin & the treatice of the British in the Case of yourself—I wish that if his Lordships Exchange should be confirmed by Congress, that those of his family may also be approved—I think it not only a Respect due to the Character of the Marquis, but that it may be best also in a political View. [More]