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From Fizeaux, Grand & Co.
Docno: PJA11d302
Recipient: JA
Date: 1781-05-30
[dateline] Amsterdam May 30th. 1781
[salute] Sir
We have been honourd with your very esteemd favour of the 26th. Instant acknowledging receipt of your sundry acceptations amounting in all to Bf 126,000. and approving our payment of them for account of the United States of America.
We inclose anew your following acceptations which we have discharged for said account
| 4 of the 24th. Instant Amounting to | Bf 2200. | |
| 11 of the 28th. do. | 6050. | |
| Bf 8250. | together |
for which we have debited the United States of America; We beg the favour of your acknowledging receipt of these Effects and approve our payment thereof.
Of your acceptations due the 28th. Instant there remains Still undischarged Bf 9888. which we expect every moment to be tenderd us for payment, this Sum with those we have already cleard, and of which we have given you the particulars, amount to Bf 144138. and the produce of your draughts on Paris to 135440.12. 8.
To balance nearly this object we take the liberty of inclosing three blank draughts on his Excellency Dr. Franklin in our favour for
| Bf 2200. | } | together Bf 7000. at 2 usances. |
| 2300. | ||
| 2500. |
If you approve of it, we request you'll please to return them signd, and as tomorrow is the day for Negotiating on France We shall advise you as also Dr. Franklin what they'll have produced, it is at his Excellency's particular request that we have dated these draughts at 2 Usances.1
Inclosed a letter directed to us by Dr. Franklin for One Mr. Jackson, as this gentleman is perhaps better Known to you, Sir, than to us, We take the liberty of recommending it to your Care.2
We remain very respectfully Sir Your most obedient & very humble Servants
[signed] Fizeaux Grand Comp.
1. In his reply of 1 June, JA thanked the firm for its efforts on behalf of the United States and enclosed the three drafts on Franklin for Bf 7,000. He also informed Franklin in a letter of the same date (both LbC's, Adams Papers).
To the President of Congress
Docno: PJA11d303
Recipient: President of Congress
Recipient: Huntington, Samuel
Date: 1781-05-31
This is a summary of a document and does not contain a transcription. If it is available elsewhere in this digital edition, a page number link will be provided below in the paragraph beginning "Printed."
[dateline] Amsterdam, 31 May 1781.
RC in John Thaxter's hand PCC, No. 84, III, f. 181–182. printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 4:461.
John Adams provided an English translation of a memorial presented to the States General on 28 April by the Danish envoy, Mestral de Saint Saphorin. The diplomat called on the Dutch government to evacuate the Volta River forts of Creve Coeur and Good Hope and thereby end its encroachment on the Danish establishment along the African coast in present day Ghana.
RC
in John Thaxter's hand
PCC, No. 84, III, f. 181–182.
printed
:
Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 4:461.
To the President of Congress
Docno: PJA11d304
Recipient: President of Congress
Recipient: Huntington, Samuel
Date: 1781-05-31
This is a summary of a document and does not contain a transcription. If it is available elsewhere in this digital edition, a page number link will be provided below in the paragraph beginning "Printed."
[dateline] Amsterdam, 31 May 1781.
RC in John Thaxter's hand PCC, No. 84, III, f. 185–187>. printed : Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 4:463–464.
John Adams provided Congress with English translations of declarations by the cities of Dordrecht and Haarlem in support of Amsterdam's declaration of 18 May to the States of Holland. Noting the lament of the deputies from Haarlem at the silence of the other towns represented in the States of Holland, Adams ended his letter with “hearty Wishes that this dumb Spirit may be soon cast out.”
RC
in John Thaxter's hand
PCC, No. 84, III, f. 185–187.
printed
:
Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 4:463–464.
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/