1To John Adams from the Board of Treasury, 7 March 1786 (Adams Papers)
We do ourselves the Honor of transmitting to you the Resolves of Congress of the 15 th. day of February last from which you will observe the Embarrassments under which the United States labor to Comply with their Foreign Engagements through the want of Exertions in the several States to pay in their Quotas of the Annual Requisitions.— The present State of the Treasury is in Consequence so...
2To John Adams from Board of Treasury, 6 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
We do ourselves the Honor of transmitting to you a Duplicate of our Letters to yourself, and the Commissioners of the Dutch Loans of the 7 th: and 22 d: March last. The latter together with one of this Date addressed to the same Gentlemen & Enclosing a Bill in their Favor on Mess rs: Wilhem, and Jan Willink of Amsterdam, we Request the Favor of you to forward by the first Mail— Our Letter to...
3To John Adams from the Board of Treasury, 31 October 1786 (Adams Papers)
In your Letter of the 19 th May last, you were pleased to inform us that you had already accepted Bills which had been drawn on you to a considerable amount by M r. Barclay and Lamb, in consequence of the appropriation which had been made by Congress for forming Treaties with the Barbary Powers; but as we have no advice from you since that date, we are at a loss to know whether the whole or...
4To John Adams from the Board of Treasury, 4 April 1787 (Adams Papers)
We have the Honor of Enclosing to you a Letter to Mess rs: Wilhelm and Jan Willink, and Nicholas and Jacob Van Staphorst on the Subject of the Interest, which will become due on the Dutch Loans in the month of June next— This Letter, after Perusal, you will be pleas’d to seal and forward; together with the Enclosed Bills of Exchange, when Accepted by the Gentleman on whom they are drawn— Viz...
5To John Adams from the Board of Treasury, 25 July 1787 (Adams Papers)
We are favor’d with your Letter of the 8 th: of May last, transmitting Protests for Non Acceptance of the two Bills of Exchange for 75,000 Florins; drawn by Constable Rucker & C o. of New York on their Partner M r. John Rucker of London— From the Solidity of the House by whom the Bill was drawn (being in Partnership with M r. Robert Morris of Phil a. ) we had not the most distant Apprehension...