Publication Date
Spring 1987
Abstract
The material being examined in this paper consists of certain accounting records: the Household accounts of Benjamin Franklin and John Adams at Passy, for the period from 9 April to 24 August 1778, in English, and the accounts of the Commissioners (Franklin, Adams, and Lee) with the Swiss banker Ferdinand Grand of Paris, from 30 March to 12 November 1778, in French, along with some of the letters written by and received by John Adams during this same period. These documents are now available to scholars in the recently published Papers of John Adams. It should be noted that larger sums relating to personal expenditures were often paid through the banker Grand rather than from the household accounts, which were used for general living expenses, smaller personal expenditures, and as a sort of petty cash fund for official business.
Recommended Citation
Carstens, Robert H. and Flesher, Dale L.
(1987)
"Accounts of the Commissioners of the Continental Congress,"
Accounting Historians Notebook: Vol. 10:
No.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aah_notebook/vol10/iss1/1