1To John Adams from William Stephens Smith, 4 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
left London on 9 Aug., bound for Harwich to take passage to Hellevoetsluis, where he arrived on the 11th. He traveled in company with Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), a Venezuelan soldier and partisan of Latin-American independence whom
2To George Washington from William Stephens Smith, 12 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
...and in June 1786 he married Abigail Amelia, daughter of John and Abigail Adams. In 1787 he went to Spain and Portugal on a diplomatic mission for Congress. After a tour of Europe with Francisco de Miranda, he returned to the United States in 1788 and became heavily involved in land speculation and increasingly burdened by debt. On 20 June John Adams wrote to GW in support of his son-in-law’s...
3To George Washington from William Stephens Smith, 6 June 1791 (Washington Papers)
below, and Francisco de Miranda to Henry Knox, 2 Feb. 1791,
4From William Stephens Smith to John Quincy Adams, 29 March 1806 (Adams Papers)
(Signed) Francisco De Miranda(signed) Francisco De Miranda