3. For the substance of Moylan's invoice, dated 8 May (not found), and
JA's reply of 14 May (
LbC,
Adams Papers), see
Adams Family Correspondence,
3:338–339.
JA entrusted the merchandise to the
Alliance's surgeon, Dr. Amos Windship, but when the frigate reached Boston on 16 Aug., neither
Windship nor the trunk was aboard. Moylan later found that, in the uproar over Pierre
Landais' seizure of the
Alliance from John Paul Jones, the goods were left at Lorient. Jones subsequently placed them
aboard his ship, the
Ariel, which reached Philadelphia on 18 Feb. 1781. Jones deposited the merchandise with
James Lovell, who forwarded it to
AA, the last item reaching her sometime between 4 Dec. 1781 and 8 Jan. 1782 (
JA to John Paul Jones,
22 Feb., and
note 3, vol. 8:350;
Dict. Amer. Fighting Ships;
Adams Family Correspondence, 4:
81–83,
85–86,
88,
245,
273–274).