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46,149 lettersVersailles 5. Juillet 1778 Comme je suis dans le cas, Messieurs, d’avoir besoin du Capitaine Jones pour quelqu’expédition particuliere, je desirerois qu’il pût rester ici. Si vous n’y voyez point…
Challiot July 5th. 1778 Dear Sir I enclose you my Copy of Capt. Jones’s Instructions. My opinion is that in quitting his Ship without our leave or orders was a…
Passy. June 5. [ , Start insertion, July 4–5 , End, ?] 1778 1 Plan for expeditions 2 submitted to the American Plenipotentiaries and to the French minister of Marine…
Bordeaux 4 July 1778 Honble. Sirs The Union Cap. Barry arriv’d the 2 Instant from Edenton which place he left the 6th June. I apply’d for Letters that I apprehended…
Lorient July the 4th 1778 Sir These will be handed you by Musco Livingston Gentleman my 2d Lewt. Who now must Leave me on account of an Imperfect State of…
Nantes 4 July 1778 Dear Sir Last night arrived here from Baltimore the Brigantine Saratoga, Captn. Murray, who has brought 2 Packets from Congress for the Honble. the Commissioners, and…
Passy. July 3. 1778 Honble Gentlemen Agreeable to your verbal order I have given Directions to stop the Reparation of the Arms at Nantes, paying the Workmen their Wages Gratifications…
On Board the Boston. Lorient July 3d. 1778 Gentlemen These may Serve to acquaint your Honours of my arrival at this port, after a short Cruze of twenty four Days.…
Brest July 3d. 1778 Gentlemen I am to Acknowledge the receipt of your favor from Passi of the third of last month, 1 for which, and your kind interposition in…
Passy, 26 June 1778. printed : JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, Mass., 1961; 4 vols.…
Nantes June 25th. 1778 Gentlemen As Mr. Ross, 1 a Gentleman of Pennsylvania, has been kind enough to offer me a Passage on Board his Schooner, bound to Virginia; I…
Bordeaux 23 June 1778 Honble. Sirs We are without any object Interesting other than the Eclat with which Le Marquis D’Almadova 1 is receiv’d by the Governor Intendant and other…
Passy, 23 June 1778. printed : JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, Mass., 1961; 4 vols.…
Brest Hospl. June 22nd. 1778 Gentlemen I would beg leave to inform You that in the Action with the Drake Sloop of War on the 24th of April last, I…
Passi June 22. 1778 1 Honourable Gentlemen Your petitioner is Come from Irland to Bordeaux to procure American papers to procead with a Cargo to America; But the Embargo having…
York Town in Pennsylva June 21 1778 Gentlemen The British Commissioners have arrived and transmitted their powers and propositions to Congress, which have received the answer you will see in…
York Town June 21 1778 My dear Sir Although we are exceedingly pressd with publick Business at this Juncture, I cannot omit the Opportunity that now offers of writing to…
Versailles, 20 June 1778 Gentlemen I have received, gentlemen, a letter from Nantes by Mr. J. D. Schweighauser, the agent of the United States of North America. Charged with the…
A Versailles 20 Juin 1778 J’ai recû, Messieurs, une Lettre de Nantes qui m’a été ecrite par le Sieur J. D. Schweighauser Agent des Etats unis de L’Amerique Septentrionale, qui,…
Paris 20th June 1778 To the Honble the Commissioners of the United States of North America Your Petitioner Humbly Sheweth that being a native of the States of New Jersey…