Adams Papers

From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 5 January 1793

From John Quincy Adams

Boston January 5. 1793.

Dear Sir.

The bearer of this Letter, Mr: D’Hauteval, is a french Gentleman from the Island of St: Domingo, where he had lately the misfortune to lose a plantation of great value, by the devastation of the insurgent negroes.1 He has been about two months in this town, where I have frequently had the pleasure of meeting him in Company, and where his amiable manners have entitled him to as much esteem, as his misfortunes had claimed respect. He now proposes to spend a short time at Philadelphia, and I take the opportunity in compliance with his wishes, and at the same time as a gratification of my own, to introduce him to your acquaintance.

I am, dear Sir, your affectionate Son.

J. Q. Adams.

RC (Adams Papers); addressed: “The Vice-President of the United States / Philadelphia.”; endorsed: “J. Q. Adams”; notation by JQA: “Hond: by / Mr: d’Hauteval.”

1. Lucien Hauteval, a wealthy sugar planter and member of the colonial assembly of St. Domingue, fled the violence of the Haitian Revolution and resettled in Paris in 1796. For his later role as Agent Z in the XYZ Affair, see AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 12:437 (Harlow Giles Unger, John Quincy Adams, Boston, 2012, p. 112).

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    From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 5 January 1793
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    Adams, John
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    5 January 1793

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    “From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 5 January 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0118. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 21, March 1791–January 1797, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, p. 161.]

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