1To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 11 July 1782 (Adams Papers)
In Consequence of Your Excellencys request, We have Sent the Accounts to Mrs DelaLande & Fynje and these Gentn: in combination with Mrs W & J Willink, and N & J Van Staphorst, have paid the Same, against double receipts for each. We added to that of Your Excellencys private acct: f 12:15:— for the frame of Young Mr Adams’s picture in conformity to our last. We Could as to ourselves have no...
2To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, with a Draft Contract for a Loan, 22 January 1781 (Adams Papers)
May it please Yoúr Excellency that we now lay before her the papers she hath charged us with to prepare for a Loan, we shall have the honoúr to undertake for and in behalf of the United States of North America; we have discused the Same on the Advice of Some people accústomed to regulate money matters, on which they have been corrected by a Lawÿer, we should be verry happy if yoúr Excellency...
3To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 8 February 1781 (Adams Papers)
After the late conference yoúr Excellency honourd me with, we should have had the honoúr to answer her most Esteemd favoúr sooner, bútt I am confind to my room, and in want of some information aboút the form of the bonds. As to the terms Yoúr Excellency pleased to fixe on the Loan, relating to oúr Comission, we can have no objection, we wish chearfully to comply there with; as also, to leave...
4To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 19 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
May we thank Yoúr Excellency for the Obligations she was so kind as to retúrn ús by Mr. Thaxter. The best way we foúnd to remedy the doúble númbers we have send to yoúr ExcellencŸ, would be that Mr. Thaxter númberd oúrs again conformably in Cifer under oúr written númbers, and signd them. We had the honoúr to forward yoúr Excellency; No. 21 to 30, those may easily be Alterd in the Cifers we...
5To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 21 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
May it not displease yoúr Excellency that by this present we tútch upon the unhappy afair of St. Eústacia, we do realy pity them who will be loosers thereby, as it will be a terrible stroke and rúin many people, thank heaven oúr own loss and that of oúr frinds can not be by farr so great in this moment then it could have been; and we would willingly have sacrificd a múch larger Súmm in Case we...
6To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 5 December 1781 (Adams Papers)
We recieved a Letter which your Excellency did Us the honor of writing us the day before yesterday, observing therein that your Excellency has no Authority to interfere in the direction of the Continental Goods, which Mr. Gillon contracted to convoy to America, but such as You derived from the desire of Dr. Franklin, to take the best Care of them in your power, and that You therefore hold...
7Jean de Neufville & Son to Abigail Adams, 2 September 1780 (Adams Papers)
May we begg leave to offer our Respects to your Excellency, and to enclose here the list of some particulars His Excellency favourd us with the honour to procure, and which we hope may prove to satisfaction, or if any thing may be wanting, which never will be owing to the least inattention; we most frendly begg to be guided by your Ladyships instructions for the future; and we will pay the...
8To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 22 April 1782 (Adams Papers)
Although indisposition and absence may have frustrated our wishes of being first in paying Your Excellency an homage in which our Country partakes so much of, by the success of your negotiations we trust to your Excellencys indulgence for being Satisfied with this apology, and tho’ late, that you will accept of this tribute which yeilds to none in sincerity. Our wishes are in nothing more...
9To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 14 June 1782 (Adams Papers)
We now send your Excellency’s Accounts after having deducted the Dutch consuls’ at plymouth for his advances to the prisoners You were pleased to give us a list of except £5:5: Stlgs. thereof as you desired, reserving to ourselves the remainder of those charges. The Ballance of these Accounts is now f3772:17: 8 in our favour. We beg leave to add thereto the Inclosed and to assure you that we...
10To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 5 July 1782 (Adams Papers)
Agreable to Your Excellencys directions We have the honour to inclose two bills for acceptance viz. No 84 in date of 6 July 1780 } drawn by F Hopkinson order J Carleton on The Honble: Col Laurens for f550 each. “ 85 . . . . . . . . do do Mrs. Delalande Fynje told us some time ago it is true that they had directions to pay us 2 accounts for Your Excellency one publik and one private but how...
11To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 28 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
We begg leave to thank yoúr Excellency for her most obliging favoúr of Yesterday, with the inclosed bills Accepted, may we begg the same favoúr for 7 Others since received and here annexed. We shall not troúble Yoúr Excellency with any new proposalls respecting the Loan, observing she wishes not to exceed the terms already proposed; we had the honoúr to acquaint yoúr Excellency that we should...
12To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 13 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
With infinite pleasúre we always obey Yoúr Excellencys commands, and are preparing fifty bonds provisionally with their coupons, to be send tomorrow. As soon as it may be required we will take care to have a greater quantity ready. We will join these to a sufficient provisionall quantity of blancs of the Coupons, which Yoúr Excellency promisd to retúrn ús with the bonds when Sign’d. May we...
13Jean de Neufville & Son to Abigail Adams, 25 May 1781 (Adams Papers)
We are honor’d with your Ladyship’s letter of the 15th Jany. last, and deem ourselves peculiarly unfortunate, not to have been more happy in the choice of the Color of Silk we sent you. ’Tis the more painful to us, as we can make no amends but by redoubling our attention and Vigilance, In the execution of your future Commands which we set so high a value on that we consider your Continuance of...
14To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 4 April 1781 (Adams Papers)
The expection of the french Letters made it to late yesterday, so that oúr Letters reached to late even for the post, where for we múst begg Yoúr Excellencys pardon to have only forwarded the Same to day by the Way of Harlem, we receivd English Letters since, a great deal of good news seem to be in the papers both from the Continent and the East Indies. We think they make largely úpp for the...
15To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 3 April 1781 (Adams Papers)
May it please Yoúr Excellency; to receive with the assúrance of oúr most respectfúll regard, the compliments of Mr. Ch. H Themmen of Groninqúe, who charged ús there with in a Letter; and promises to procúre ús by his frend a packet for Yoúr Excellency, which Mr. Francis Dana from Paris charged ús to forward; whe shall comply there with the moment we receive it; it hath been left as Mr. Themmen...
16To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 22 February 1781 (Adams Papers)
May it please Yoúr Excellency! that we remove the doúbts which are laying on oúr mind for two letters we received for her from France, and which we have send for again yesterday to enclose them by a letter we had prepared bútt on which we gott only an answer today, that they were directed to yoúr Excellency, oúr Clarck had made the first mistake in sending them as usuall for which we begg yoúr...
17To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 17 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
May it not displease Yoúr Excellency; that forwarding the inclosed Letters, we repeat again oúr reqúest, that we may be favoured with the rettúrn of a few bonds, as to be in the possibility to deliver them when asked for; we were obliged to promise two of them for Wednesday next; so we begg to receive them before that time and some more as soon as convenient; we have seen by the publicq papers...
18To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 24 May 1782 (Adams Papers)
In handing your Excellcy.’s Newspapers received ⅌ the mail which arived this day from England, we add thereto an Accot. receivd. at the same time from the Dutch Consul at Plymouth with receipts for moneys paid to some prisoners in Mill prison by your directions transmitted him thro’ us. Said gentleman makes a request to us, to apply to your Excellency on behalf of a Revd. Mr. Mendes, to which...
19To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 11 April 1781 (Adams Papers)
May we thank yoúr Excellency for her obliging favoúr, which brought ús the Bills accepted, that which Yoúr Excellency refers to ús; we will write to Doctr. Franklin aboút as yoúr Excellency directs, supposing it to be agreable so as to keep the parties by themselfs; We shall have again to join some gazettes to this; and for the moment we are happy to see that every thing seems to go well...
20Enclosure: A Draft Contract for a Loan, 22 January 1781 (Adams Papers)
While as the generall Congress of the United States of North America, in which the supreme Legislatúre of this extensive coúntrie Resides, hath Resolved for the benefitt of the common wealth to borrow abroad a certain súmm of money and to make a loan; and as Congress hath aúthorised and qualified, and do aúthorize and qualify there to by force of this present Mr. John de Neufville & Son at...
21To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 5 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
May we have the honoúr, to offer to Yoúr Excellency, the inclosed pack, received from Mr. Searle, who now is at Paris; and to join there to the form of the Obligation and Coúpon, in which only a few púnctúations are to be alterd, and we hope to be able to send by the tomorrow scoot, the quantity of stamped ones, according to Yoúr Excellencys orders; meanwhile we send some of those form...
22To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 31 May 1782 (Adams Papers)
We beg leave to reffer ourselves to the letter we wrotte your Excellcy. the 24th. Instt. and have now to enclose your Account Currt. Ballanced in our favour with the sum of f3937: 1: 8 Including the Accot. of Disbursements for the loan In 1781. We shall esteem your Excellcys. ordering our Reimbursement of said sum—and that you Will return us the papers desired by our former—and that you Will...
23To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 2 July 1782 (Adams Papers)
We have to apprize your Excellency that we have received Two Bills of the United States in date of the 6th. July 1780 No. 84 and 85 a Six Months Sight, to the order of Joseph Carleton, drawn on the Honourble. Henry Laurens Esqr. for f 550 each, and to request you will inform us, where, we are to send ’em for Acceptance, And at the same time that you would be pleased to inform us whether it is...
24Jean de Neufville & Son to Abigail Adams, 25 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
We regret that your Ladyship’s letter of 25th April should not have Came to our hands soon enough to have prevented our executing your orders p er the Ship Juno, in Lieu of that of our good friends Messrs. N. & T. Tracey (the Minerva) as a freight of 12 ½ PCt. is an object worth saving. But they were Shipped as early as the 25 May, and we were in hopes you would have received them before now,...
25To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 22 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
May it please Yoúr Excellency. That we acknowledge the receipt of her most esteemd favoúr, the sentiments expressd there in are most liberall, we are in hopes they may prevaill with oúr people, bútt nationally considered, we confess, we are mostly to slow in oúr motions, the generall, feel the English injury, they are sensible of its soúrce, bútt seem to múch abashd by the loss, to move as...
26To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 17 April 1781 (Adams Papers)
We found out by the bring in that the Amsterdam Leyden and Utrecht Newspaper are all belonging to Your Excellency and have accordingly the honour to forward them; the English papers of yesterday went by the this morning having unfortunately come to late yesterday for which we are to make many apologies for our Clerk that was charged with them; We suppose however that the Leyden paper will be...
27Enclosure: An Account, 31 May 1782 (Adams Papers)
Debtor: 1780 May 30 To amount of sundries sent to the Honble: Lady Adams Pr: the Brig Hannah Captn: Haydon f 364: 18: — 1781 July 16 To do: Pr: the Ship Minerva Captn: Brown ″ 392: 19: — ″ To Cash pd: Frans P: Vergendo for silks &c as Acct. of 14 June ″ 136:
28To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 26 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
May it please yoúr Excellency that we thank her for the most kind reception I had the honoúr to meet with. I am sorry my time is so múch taken úp in this moment that I could not make my visit longer and accept of the honoúr offerd me; there is no news aboút the loan; I am very much pleased Yoúr Excellency is so indifferent aboút it for the present, as I can scarcely doúbt it will do in good...
29To John Adams from Jean de Neufville & Fils, 27 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
May we begg leave to mention to Yoúr Excellency that nothing materiall hath happend Since oúrs of Yesterday. The greatest news we now múst expect from the Hagúe as oúr States will be Assembled, for we múst not mind for false reports, Súch as that which had been spread to day that Vlissingen was taken by the English, by and by I hope we will learn not to be intimidated, and then see the Spirits...
30Enclosure: Invoice of Goods, 30 May 1781 (Adams Papers)
INVOICE of Sundries Shipped on board the Juno William Haydon Commander, bound for Boston. Consign’d to Mr. Isaac Smith Mercht. there, on order, and for Account of the honorable Lady Adams, in Braintree, mark’d, and number’d, as in margin Viz. No. 1 1 Box Containing No. 1 2 Damask Table Cloths 5 by 3 1/4 Ell at f.11 1/2 23 2 2 do. do. 1 1/2 by 3 1/4 at f. 10 1/4 20 10 3 2 do. do. 3 1/4 by 3...