本杰明·富兰克林：本杰明·富兰克林自传·补录 173

As to rewards from himself, I ask'd only one, which was, that he would give orders to his officers not to enlist any more of our bought servants, and that he would discharge such as had been already enlisted. This he readily granted, and several were accordingly return'd to their masters, on my application. Dunbar, when the command devolv'd on him, was not so generous. He being at Philadelphia, on his retreat, or rather flight, I apply'd to him for the discharge of the servants of three poor farmers of Lancaster county that he had enlisted, reminding him of the late general's orders on that head. He promised me that, if the masters would come to him at Trenton, where he should be in a few days on his march to New York, he would there deliver their men to them. They accordingly were at the expense and trouble of going to Trenton, and there he refus'd to perform his promise, to their great loss and disappointment.

出处： https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148
定位：Additional excerpt 173 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录

公版传记；原文逐字取自 Project Gutenberg，仅摘录段落并附全书链接。

本文本为公版；底本与原文链接见上。 版权

← 返回原文库