371To John Adams from Herman Heyman’s Sons, 31 July 1783 (Adams Papers)
We are still greatly indebted to your Exelency for the Letters of Introduction your Exelency have been so Kind to favor us with for our Partner M r. Arnold Delius for Philadelphia & Boston Your Exelency will therefore permit to say you our most Humble thanks for this particular mark of attention for us, and we most Sincerly wish to have it in our power to Convince Your Exelency of our...
372To John Adams from John Thaxter, 31 July 1783 (Adams Papers)
M r. Laurens & Son arrived here last Evening from Paris— I waited upon them immediately, and learnt that they were going over to England as soon as M r. Barclay should arrive, which will be to day, in all probability, as he left Paris the 29 th. instant. Capt Barney, it seems, is directed to give M r. Laurens a Passage to Portsmouth, which is but a short run from hence— M r. Laurens will, upon...
373To John Adams from Wilhem & Jan Willink, 31 July 1783 (Adams Papers)
Your Excellency’s Letter for the Honourable R: Livingston Esq r. by want of Ships opportunity we recommanded this morning to the Care of M r. Brush, and having received with the french mail the inclosed, we forward it immediately. We have had a great deal of trouble with the Coachman, who made his acc t. that the hire agreed upon of 2ƒ a day till the return made already till now 290 days 2ƒ...
374To Benjamin Franklin from Herman Heyman’s Sons, 31 July 1783 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society We beg leave to Refer us to our last Letter which we had the honour to write to your Exelency, by addressing you our most humble thanks for the Letters of Introduction with which you favored us, for our new established House in Nord America. Beeing convinced of the Patriotism which your Exelency bears for your Country, we hope you’ll permit us to trouble you...
375To Benjamin Franklin from Vergennes: Two Letters, 31 July 1783 (Franklin Papers)
(I) L (draft): Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; (II) LS and transcript: National Archives; L (draft): Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères J’ai communîqué confidentiellement, M, à M. le Ct. de Mercy la notte que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de me remettre; cet ambassadeur pense qu’il seroit convenable que vous la redigeassies d’après la notte que j’y ai mise: je me...
376To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 31 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
A moments’ time is only allowed me, to inform your Excellency that I have it in command from Congress to acquaint you, that it is their pleasure that you should, as soon as convenient, after your return from the Northward, attend Congress at this place, as they think your presence will be of special service at this important period; and the change of situation may be more agreable to your...
377To George Washington from Thomas Dawson, 31 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have information given me your Excellency has at different times advertized for a Person properly Skill’d in the Art of Agriculture in order to bring the lands in your Dominions to the same degree of perfection as in England &c. I now take the Liberty to Solicit your Excellency on the Business; I was Born in the Co. of Durham in the North of England where I was brot up in that line, I...
378To George Washington from James McHenry, 31 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
You will forgive me for not writing to you sooner and attribute it to its real cause, not want of the sincerest inclination, but of Censure. Perhaps before this reaches you the president will have transmitted our resolve for bringing you here and relieving you from that disagreable situation of which you have so justly complained in your letter to Congress. I was chairman of the committee on...
379[July 1783] (Adams Papers)
Je fus à Delft avec Monsr. Fitch et sa compagnie, qui partent pour L’Angleterre. Most likely Eliphalet Fitch, a native Bostonian, reputedly very rich, who may have held a crown office in Jamaica, and whom JA described to JQA as a grandson of Dr. Thomas Boylston “and consequently your Relation” ( JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and...
38030. (Adams Papers)
Nous retournames à la Haye.