David Franks (aide-de-camp)

David Salisbury Franks (27 March 1740 – 7 October 1793) was a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was one of two aides-de-camp for General Benedict Arnold during the war. Franks was officially exonerated and cleared of any complicity with General Arnold's act of treason, and was later chosen to travel to Paris to deliver to Benjamin Franklin the official copy of the peace treaty that ended the war and granted American independence.

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