To John Adams from Hendrik van Blomberg, 25 September 1780

From Hendrik van Blomberg

Amstm. 25 Sept. 1780

Sir

Messrs. van Vollenhoven, not with standing all the credit they have for the United States of North America Cannot accept of the Commission, Which You have done them the honour to propose, for Reason that their Branch of Comerce being fixt to the Baltick, they Cannot Wel extend it so far as North America.1 I have the honour to be with great Your most h: Servt.

H V Blomberg

RC (Adams Papers); endorsed: “M. Van Blombergs Billet Septr. 25. 1780.”

1. Writing in 1809, JA ascribed the rejection of his proposal to the van Vollenhovens to their being “too rich to hazard so dangerous an experiment” (JA, Corr. in the Boston Patriot description begins Correspondence of the Late President Adams. Originally Published in the Boston Patriot. In a Series of Letters, Boston, 1809–1810; 10 pts. description ends , p. 171). For the reaction of Hendrik Bicker, who had recommended the van Vollenhovens, see his letter of 1 Oct. (below). For JA’s apparent refusal to see the van Vollenhoven’s initial rejection as final, see van Blomberg’s note of 26 Sept. (below).

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Title: To John Adams from Hendrik van Blomberg, 25 September 1780
Author: Blomberg, Hendrik van
Recipient: Adams, John
Date: 25 September 1780

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Cite as: “To John Adams from Hendrik van Blomberg, 25 September 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-10-02-0101. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 10, July 1780 – December 1780, ed. Gregg L. Lint and Richard Alan Ryerson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, p. 179.]

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