1To 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...
2To George Washington from William Stephens Smith, 6 June 1791 (Washington Papers)
below, and Francisco de Miranda to Henry Knox, 2 Feb. 1791,