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The Commissioners to Sartine, 16 July 1778

The Commissioners to Sartine

Passy, 16 July 1778. printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 4:164. The Commissioners told Sartine that the congress and the authorities in Massachusetts would be notified of his request, but that the presence of British warships on the Newfoundland and Halifax stations might make assistance to St. Pierre and Miquelon difficult. They also enclosed a letter from J. D. Schweighauser (not found) regarding problems with the prizes taken by American frigates and requested that Sartine permit the prisoners taken by the Boston, Providence, and Ranger to be confined in French prisons at American expense until they were either exchanged or sent to America.

printed: (JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 4:164).

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    The Commissioners to Sartine, 16 July 1778
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    First Joint Commission at Paris
    Adams, John
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    Sartine, Antoine Raymond Jean Gualbert Gabriel de
    Date
    16 July 1778

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    “The Commissioners to Sartine, 16 July 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-06-02-0225. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 6, March–August 1778, ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983, p. 292.]