Adams Papers

The Commissioners to J. D. Schweighauser, 25 May 1778

The Commissioners to J. D. Schweighauser

Passy, 25 May 1778. printed:JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 4:115. Drafted by Adams, this letter, through enclosed extracts from letters of 25 May to John Paul Jones (calendared above) and Jonathan Williams (calendared below), informed Schweighauser that he was the authorized American agent at Brest. The Commissioners directed him to send monthly accounts and to inform them of unusual proposed expenses so that they would not run into debt.

printed: (JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 4:115).

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    The Commissioners to J. D. Schweighauser, 25 May 1778
    Authors
    First Joint Commission at Paris
    Adams, John
    Recipient
    Schweighauser, John Daniel
    Date
    25 May 1778

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    “The Commissioners to J. D. Schweighauser, 25 May 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-06-02-0113. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 6, March–August 1778, ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983, p. 153.]