From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 38, 7 April 1780

To the President of Congress, No. 38

Paris, 7 April 1780. RC in John Thaxter’s hand (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 425–431) printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. description begins Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Washington, 1889; 6 vols. description ends , 3:599–602.

In this letter, received by Congress on 19 Feb. 1781, Adams provided accounts of the arrival of Russian couriers at The Hague on 30 March with Catherine II’s declaration of an armed neutrality and an invitation to the Dutch to join (see JA to the president of Congress, 10 April, No. 40, below); the determination of the Turks to resist belligerent depredations on their ships or the vessels of other nations trading with Turkish ports; and the Russian reaction to the British attack on the Dutch convoy under the protection of Adm. van Bylandt.

RC in John Thaxter’s hand (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 425–431). printed: (Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. description begins Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Washington, 1889; 6 vols. description ends , 3:599–602.)

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 38, 7 April 1780
Author: Adams, John
Recipients: Huntington, Samuel
President of Congress
Date: 7 April 1780

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Cite as: “From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 38, 7 April 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-09-02-0086. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 9, March 1780 – July 1780, ed. Gregg L. Lint and Richard Alan Ryerson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, p. 113.]