1To John Adams from Joshua Barney, 18 December 1782 (Adams Papers)
According to Your request I have to inform You, that the letters intrusted to my care to go by the Ships Cicero & Buccaneer I have Deliver’d to the Capt ns. Hill & Phearson, I should have wrote You before but the Capt ns. having both been at Nantz for Some time and not chusing to deliver them to any other Person, prevented me, their Sailing is still Very uncertain,— I am waiting with the...