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Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 10
To the President of Congress, No. 5
Docno: PJA10d078
Recipient: President of Congress
Recipient: Huntington, Samuel
Date: 1780-09-04
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[dateline] Amsterdam, 4 Sept. 1780.
A note attached to this letter by Robert Gilmor, a Baltimore merchant, indicates that he received it from Jared Sparks on 24 Dec. 1827. printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 4:45. In this letter, received by Congress on 3 Dec., John Adams sent the substance of London newspaper reports regarding the captures, on 9 Aug. and 12 July respectively, of large portions of the British convoys bound to the East and West Indies and to Quebec.
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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