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Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 9
To the President of Congress, No. 38
Docno: PJA09d093
Recipient: Huntington, Samuel
Recipient: President of Congress
Date: 1780-04-07
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[dateline] Paris, 7 April 1780
RC in John Thaxter's hand (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 425–431) printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 3:599–602.
In this letter, received by Congress on 19 Feb. 1781, Adams provided accounts of the arrival of Russian couriers at The Hague on 30 March with Catherine II's declaration of an armed neutrality and an invitation to the Dutch to join (see JA to the president of Congress, 10 April, No. 40, below); the determination of the Turks to resist belligerent depredations on their ships or the vessels of other nations trading with Turkish ports; and the Russian reaction to the British attack on the Dutch convoy under the protection of Adm. van Bylandt.
RC
in John Thaxter's hand
PCC, No. 84, I, f. 425–431.
printed:
Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 3:599–602.
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/
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