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Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 10
To the President of Congress, No. 96
Docno: PJA10d007
Recipient: President of Congress
Recipient: Huntington, Samuel
Date: 1780-07-19
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[dateline] Paris, 19 July 1780.
RC in John Thaxter's hand (PCC, No. 84, II, f. 201–206). printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 3:867–869.
This let•
{p. 13}
ter, read in Congress on 26 Dec., begins with brief reports from St. Petersburg and Copenhagen concerning preparations of the Russian, Danish, and Swedish navies to protect their merchant vessels under the terms of the armed neutrality. Adams then fulfilled the promise made in his letter of 15 July (No. 93, calendared, above) by providing the complete text of Catherine II's ordinance of 19 May establishing the duties and responsibilities of her subjects in maintaining a strict Russian neutrality in the midst of the Anglo-French naval war.
RC
in John Thaxter's hand
PCC, No. 84, II, f. 201–206.
printed
:
Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 3:867–869.
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.
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