From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 94, 15 July 1780

To the President of Congress, No. 94

Paris, 15 July 1780. Dupl, both text and signature in John Thaxter’s hand (PCC, No. 84, II, f. 193–195). 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 , 3:858.

In this letter, read by Congress on 26 Dec., John Adams included accounts, probably taken from French or Dutch newspapers (see the Gazette de Leyde of 11 July), from Constantinople, Stockholm, The Hague, and Hamburg. That from Constantinople reported a British blockade of a French merchant fleet in Turkish waters, a violation of Ottoman neutrality, and a subsequent battle between French and British forces that broke the blockade. The other reports concerned the measures being taken by Sweden, the Netherlands, and Denmark to enforce the armed neutrality.

Dupl, both text and signature in John Thaxter’s hand (PCC, No. 84, II, f. 193–195.) 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 , 3:858.)

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Title: From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 94, 15 July 1780
Author: Adams, John
Recipients: Huntington, Samuel
President of Congress
Date: 15 July 1780

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Cite as: “From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 94, 15 July 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-09-02-0316. [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. 591.]