1To John Adams from Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst & Nicolaas Hubbard, 11 October 1790 (Adams Papers)
We beg leave to introduce to your Excellency’s acquaintance, the Bearer M r. Joseph Ceracchi Native of Rome & an eminent Sculptor, requesting your Excellency to render him every Service and civility in your Power, under our assurance of his being well worthy of them, and that your Excellency will thereby particularly oblige those who on similar & all other occasions are with great regard &...
2To John Adams from Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst & Nicolaas Hubbard, 14 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
On the 26 th: last Month only, we received your respected favor of 2 Decbr to our Predecessors, accompanying the Second and Third Volumes of Your Defence of the American Constitutions, to compleat the Setts presented us; For which Mark of your Friendship and Remembrance, Please accept our hearty Thanks.— Your departure from Europe, has been followed by Events of infinite importance indeed;...
Permit us to offer you our most hearty and sincere Congratulations on Your and your Lady’s safe Return to your Native Country, after a long Absence, during which We had the Satisfaction to form a Relation with you; The Cessation whereof does not We assure you, diminish our Wishes for the Happiness of yourself and Family. As a small Token of our Remembrance and Esteem, We have taken the Liberty...
4To John Adams from Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, 29 January 1788 (Adams Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s respected favor of 22 d. Ins t: —informing us You and Col o: Smith will require £3000— St g: previous to your Departure from Europe. Mess rs: Pullers had already acquainted us therewith, and have Orders to hold that Sum at Your Disposal. The Bills on M r: Rucker are regularly received by us. We take notice of your Dereliction of the Affairs of the...
5To John Adams from Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, 8 January 1788 (Adams Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s respected favor of 2 d. Ins t: with Copy of the Resolution of Congress conveying your Recall, and a Testimony of your Services and Merits, the more honorable, as it comes from the only Source capable of appreciating justly their Value. Upon which please accept our Congratulations, together with our Wishes for your safe Return to your Native Country, Where...
6To John Adams from Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, 25 December 1787 (Adams Papers)
Being without any of Your Excellency’s esteemed favors unreplied to, The Purport of the present is to acquaint you, that on the 22 nd: Ins t: we received a Letter from His Excellency Tho s: Jefferson Esq r: Minister from the United-States to the Court of Versailles, notifying to us that Mess rs: H. Fizeaux & C o: of this City, had applied to him for f 51,000:—:— to pay off so much borrowed by...
We have Your Excellency’s favor of 1 st: Ins t: advising it as most safe and prudent in your Opinion from what you had learned of the unfortunate and critical Situation of public Affairs in our Republic and particularly in this City, that we should pay into the Bank of Amsterdam, the Money we have in hand belonging to the United-States; A Measure dictated no doubt by Your Excellency’s Zeal for...
8To John Adams from Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, 18 May 1787 (Adams Papers)
Agreeable to what we had the honor to acquaint Your Excellency the 15 th Instant, We have exerted ourselves to procure Money for Payment of the Interest due the First Proximo by the United-States; A Matter very difficult to be accomplished, as we had against us the late News from America, no immediate flattering Prospects and an excessive Scarcity of Money here at present. We have however been...
9To John Adams from Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, 15 May 1787 (Adams Papers)
We have your excellency’s esteemed favors of 7 th: and two of 8 Instant transmitting us Letters from the Board of Treasury. The detention whereof later than others we received per the April Packet, has retarded the Business of a new Loan during a whole Week, A delay of utmost consequence at the eve of the June Interest falling due.— We sincerely lament the Necessity M r: John Rucker was in to...
10To John Adams from Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, 4 May 1787 (Adams Papers)
We have to acquaint Your Excellency that the Time drawing now very near for the Payment of the Interest Two Hundred & Fifty Thousand Guilders due by the United-States first June, and as it would be advantageous to have it inserted in the Public-papers so early as possible; We are very uneasy at the total Silence of the Board of Treasury to us on the subject. We still flatter ourselves the...