Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 10

C. W. F. Dumas to John Adams: A Translation

To C. W. F. Dumas
To the President of Congress, No. 5, 4 September 1780 JA President of Congress Huntington, Samuel

1780-09-04

 To the President of Congress, No. 5, 4 September 1780 Adams, John President of Congress Huntington, Samuel
To the President of Congress, No. 5

Amsterdam, 4 Sept. 1780. RC (MdHi: Gilmor Papers).

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.

RC (MdHi: Gilmor Papers).