Amsterdam August 18th. 1781 Sir We have recieved at last Parkers Account of the Action with Admiral Zoutman: according to which, the Battle was maintained with a continual fire for…
Amsterdam Aug 18 1781 Sir I have received your favour of August 7. with much pleasure, and thank you for the agreable News it contains. The Dutch have at last,…
Amsterdam, 6 August 1781. RC in John Thaxter’s hand PCC, No. 84, III, f. 347–350. printed : Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. description begins The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of…
Amsterdam August 4. 1781 Sir I should Scarcely be credited, if I were to describe the present State of this Country. There is more Animosity against one another, than against…
Amsterdam August 3d. 1781 Sir I have the honor to inclose Copies of some Papers which passed between the Comte de Vergennes and me, lately at Paris. 1 The Conjecture,…
Amsterdam August 1st. 1781 Sir Upon my Arrival here I found your Letter of the 30th. of June. Copy of which had been sent along to me by Mr. Thaxter…
July 12. 1781 By the United states in Congress assembled Resolved That the commission and instructions for negotiating a treaty of Commerce between these United states and Great Britain given…
Philada. July 21st. 1781 Sir I do not find by President Huntington’s Letter Book that he has forwarded the within Resolve of July 12th. respecting your Powers of Sept. 29th.…
Paris July 21. 1781 1 Since my Letter of the nineteenth, Sir, another Point has occurred to me, upon which it seems necessary, that I Should Say Something to your…
Amsterdam, 21 July 1781. RC and signature in John Thaxter’s hand PCC, No. 84, III, f. 331–332. printed : Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. description begins The Revolutionary Diplomatic…