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Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 9
To the President of Congress, No. 20
Docno: PJA09d045
Recipient: Huntington, Samuel
Recipient: President of Congress
Date: 1780-03-18
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[dateline] Paris, 18 March, 1780.
RC in John Thaxter's hand (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 329–332). printed : Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 3:557–558.
The first two-thirds of the letter, which was read in Congress on 22 July, was taken from the Gazette d'Amsterdam and included almost verbatim in John Adams' letter to Samuel Adams of this date (above). The remainder of the letter was based on Alexander Gillon's letter of 14 March (above) and a report in the Mercure de France and concerned the advent of the League of Armed Neutrality and the policies of the Netherlands and Sweden.
RC
in John Thaxter's hand
PCC, No. 84, I, f. 329–332.
printed
:
Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 3:557–558.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/