From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 79, 4 June 1780

To the President of Congress, No. 79

Paris, 4 June 1780. RC (PCC, No. 84, II, f. 98–101). 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 , 3:762–764.

In this letter, read in Congress on 25 Sept., John Adams provided a digest of newspaper accounts from Cádiz, Toulon, Brest, Paris, Ostend, Leyden, Brussels, and London for the period between 2 May and 3 June. The reports concerned Spanish and French naval operations, efforts of European merchants to trade with America, Dutch efforts to obtain redress from Britain for Fielding’s attack on Adm. van Bylandt’s convoy, and the general European response to the declaration of an armed neutrality.

RC (PCC, No. 84, II, f. 98–101.) 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 , 3:762–764.)

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Title: From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 79, 4 June 1780
Author: Adams, John
Recipients: Huntington, Samuel
President of Congress
Date: 4 June 1780

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Cite as: “From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 79, 4 June 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-09-02-0237. [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. 371.]