30421[July 10. 1778.] (Adams Papers)
July 10. 1778. We approve of the Directions given by you to stop the Reparation of the Arms at Nantes, paying the Workmen their Wages, Gratifications and Conduct Money, according to Agreement, of which you inform Us in your Letter July 3. 1778. Mr. Williams is desired to send the Commissioners an order for the Goods remaining on hand, including the sixty three Barrells of Beef to be delivered...
30422John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 10 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
I had been so short a time in this place when I wrote you last, that it was out of my power to furnish you then with any particulars respecting the enemy’s conduct during their continuance here. By enquiries and observations since, I am enabled to give you some particulars on that head. The City in general has escaped, but houses and fences detached from the Town have felt the wantoness of...
30423From John Adams to William Heath, 10 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
Passy, 10 July 1778. printed : JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 4:156–158 . Adams reported the arrival on 8 July of the ratified Franco-American treaties, which were seen as fresh evidence of the increasing isolation of Great Britain and of the unlikelihood of the formation of a coalition of powers...
30424From John Adams to William MacCreery, 10 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
Passy, 10 July 1778. printed : JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 4:155–156 . Adams discussed British reports of the evacuation of Philadelphia, congratulated MacCreery on the arrival of a ship in which he had an interest, and advised MacCreery that his description of the actions of Lafayette at...
30425Benjamin Franklin and John Adams to Ferdinand Grand, 10 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
We agree that the Bills drawn on you, by Mr. Williams, and paid by you according to the list herewith transmitted shall be charged to the Public Account of the United States; Mr. Williams to be accountable for the expenditure of all the sayd Sums to Congress or to any Person, or Persons appointed by Congress for that purpose, and to the Commissioners of the United States at the Court of France...
30426To John Adams from Edmé Jacques Genet, 10 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
I have receiv’d the papers you Sent me, and will make a proper use of them as soon as possible. When I have done with them they shall be returned you with my gratitude. I am with the greatest respect Your most humble and obedient servant PS Keppell’s fleet was still at St. Helen’s on the 6th. The mediterranean fleet under convoy of the Worcester was come into port, and also part of the Jamaica...
30427William Hodge to the Commissioners, 10 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
By Yesterdays’ Post I had the honor of receiving your Letter of the 19th of April. What could have occasioned its not reaching my hands before now, I cannot say, unless the Person who was entrusted with sending it by the Post might have detained it to answer some particular purpose. You inform me in your letter that I am charged in your Bankers Account with upwards of one hundred thousand...
30428Franklin and John Adams to Rodolphe-Ferdinand Grand, [10 July 1778]: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Copy and transcript: National Archives <[July 10, 1778: ] We are agreed that Mr. Williams’ bills on you, as listed herewith, be charged to the public account; he will be responsible to Congress or its agent, and to the commissioners, when called upon to render account of his expenditures. Our consent is not to be taken as approbation of his account or to influence the settlement of it. >...
30429The American Commissioners to Jonathan Williams, Jr.: Two Notes, 10 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; incomplete draft: American Philosophical Society; two copies: National Archives We approve of the Directions given by you to stop the Reparation of the Arms at Nantes paying the Workmen their Wages, Gratifications and Conduct money according to agreement of which you inform us in your Letter July 3 1778. Mr. Williams is desired to send the...
30430Francis Coffyn to the American Commissioners, 10 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society In the letter I had the honor of writing to you yesterday by Capn. Amiel, I inclosed a Certificate from the officers of the Admiralty. This serves to cover the three other Certifficates I promised in the Said letter, Vizt. one from the Bourgmaster and Magistrates, one from the President and Counsellors of the board of Commerce, and an other from the Judge...
30431William Hodge to the American Commissioners, 10 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Virginia Library, South Carolina Historical Society; copy and transcript: National Archives <Cadiz, July 10, 1778: I received only yesterday your letter of April 19. You tell me I am charged with almost 100,000 livres of public money. I gave Mr. Deane a detailed account of my receipts and disbursements and the charges of the Dunkirk merchants; my only charge was the...
30432To Benjamin Franklin from David Hartley, 10 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; transcript: Library of Congress Prisoner exchange was the focus of correspondence between Hartley and Franklin during the summer of 1778, and a major goal of Franklin’s activity. He systematically collected names of British captives from American sea captains to meet the terms of the Admiralty, and negotiated with the French for an appropriate port and...
30433To George Washington from Henry Laurens, 10 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of writing to Your Excellency by Major Putnam the 8th Inst. Congress while sitting before Noon received intelligence of the following import. Mr Blair McLenahan said he had seen a Capt. Selby or Selwin off Chincoteague who had fallen in with the French Fleet Eastward of Bermuda—the Admiral had taken him on board & enjoined him to pilot the ffleet to this Coast, the ffleet...
30434To George Washington from Theodosia Bartow Prevost, 10 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
Mrs Prevost Presents her best respects to his Excellency Genl Washington—requests the Honour of his Company—as She flatters herself the accommodations will [be] more Commodious than those to be procured in the Neighbourhood⟨.⟩ Mrs Prevost will be particularly happy to make her House Agreeable to His Excellency, and family. AL , owned (1978) by Mr. William Miller, Old Saybrook, Connecticut....
30435From George Washington to John Cleves Symmes, 10 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
I recd yours of the 8th instant near this place, and am extremely sorry to hear of the melancholy stroke that has fallen upon the Wyoming settlement. I have lately made a very considerable detatchment from the Army to go to Fort Pitt to quell the Indian disturbances in that quarter, and from the loss of Men in the late Action near Monmouth and the numbers that have fallen down thro’ fatigue in...
30436To George Washington from John Cleves Symmes, 10 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to Your Excellency an Examination of Jacob Wise, who says Many things of the Intentions and Movments of the Enemy, the Substance of which Your Excellency will have Inclosed. It would be vain in me to Comment or infer. I beg leave only to Mention to your Excellency that the Militia come in but slow, we have not three hundred men on the River and an extent of 30...
30437From George Washington to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 10 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
Having received information that there is a quantity of fat Cattle and Sheep in the district called Barbadoes neck —which by their situation are exceedingly exposed to the enemy, and are besides the property of persons disaffected to the United States—I hereby authorise you to take all such Cattle and Sheep as may not be absolutely necessary for the use of the families settled in that...
30438To George Washington from Brigadier General William Winds, 10 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Account I had the Honor of Sending you yesterday is Confirmed in Every Material Circumstance by the Capt. & Hands onboard the flagg of Truce provision sloop Who Came Yesterday from New York with this addition that there was a Meeting of the Merchants of New York on Wednesday last, to Consult on What would be best to be Done on the Evacuation of New York, to know how many & who were...
30439Patrick Henry in Council to Henry Laurens, 10 July 1778 (Madison Papers)
Just after sending away my Letter to you of the 8th. on the Subject of the Expedition to Detroit, the inclosed Letter from Mr. Lockhart came to my Hands. As it [is] impossible to furnish him with the capital Articles he wants, & as the Beef Cattle cannot be taken from the Monopolizers he mentions, I think additional Reasons appear for postponing the Expedition. However refering to my last & to...
30440To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, [before 9 September 1778] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society M. Le Roy est bien fâché de s’en aller à Paris sans avoir eu l’honneur de voir Monsieur Franklin depuis son retour. Il a envoyé hier deux fois chez lui pour aller lui gagner une partie d’échecs mais toutes ces deux fois là il n’y étoit pas. Il lui fait demander s’il a recu des nouvelles de M. D’Estaing. II lui renouvelle les assurrances sincères de tout son...
30441To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 11–14 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
I would propose writing to the french Admiral that there are two objects one of the two may be improvd as a blockade or an investiture as circumstances and the practibillity of entering the Harbour of New york should be found. The french fleet to take their station at Sandy Hook and block up the Harbour. This Army to take a position near the White Plains to cut off the Land communication and...
30442[11–13 July 1778] (Adams Papers)
July 11. 1778 We have had the honour of your Excellencys Letter of the Fifth Instant relative to Captain Jones, and We redily consent that he should be at your Excellencys disposition and shall be happy if his Services may be in any respect Usefull to the designs your Excellency may have in Contemplation. We have the honour to be with the greatest respect, your Excellency’s &c. The Letter to...
30443Benjamin Reed and Benjamin Bates to the Commissioners, 11 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
Whereas Jerome Cazneau, Serjeant of Marines, on board said Ship, on her Arrival in said Port, obtain’d Liberty to go on Shore, and there maliciously, and falsely represented to the French Men in general of their Abuse on board said Ship, telling them he would not return to said Ship, and injoyning and perswading those Marines and French Men who belonged to the Ship, to quit the Ship, and in...
30444George Washington to Henry Laurens, 11 July 1778 (Hamilton Papers)
Paramus [ New Jersey ] July 11, 1778 . Acknowledges receipt of Laurens’s congratulations on Battle of Monmouth. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
30445The American Commissioners to Sartine, 11 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Copies: Massachusetts Historical Society; National Archives (two) <Passy, July 11, 1778: We received your Excellency’s letter of the fifth regarding Captain Jones, and we readily consent to place him at your disposal.> Published in Butterfield, John Adams Diary , IV , 158.
30446——— to the American Commissioners, 11 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society <On board the Boston , Port Louis, July 11, 1778: Jerome Cazneau, sergeant of marines, obtained shore leave and persuaded the other Frenchmen aboard to quit the ship. He did everything in his power to alienate them from returning to duty. The General, though under orders to assist us, gave them the choice of staying or quitting, even though he was reminded...
30447To Benjamin Franklin from Emmanuel-Pierre de La Plaigne, 11 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Il m’est ordonné ce jour de me Rendre a oakhampton devon prisonier sur ma parole d’honneur avec ma famille et autres personnes qui étoient passagers avec moy dans le d’argentré; j’ay eû l’honneur d’écrire à votre exçellençe que j’étais depoüillé de tout et sans argent quelconque. Je la priais de vouloir bien me secourir ne fussent que mes appointements qui...
30448To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques-Nicolas Lallemant, 11 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Si la Jalousie pouvait entrer dans L’âme des Maçons, Touttes les Loges de Paris pourraient dans ce jour, être en proie à ce sentiment, pour disputer à celle Des Neuf Soeurs, l’avantage dont elle joüit maintenant en vous possédant pour un de ses Membres: mais ce qui peut seul dédommager ces Loges, est l’acte que vous venez de consommer, lequel vous...
30449General Orders, 11 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Commander in Chief is happy to communicate to the Army the fresh testimony of the Approbation of their Country contained in the following Resolve of Congress of 7th instant. Resolved—That General Washington be directed to signify the thanks of Congress to the gallant Officers and men under His Command who distinguish’d themselves by their Conduct and Valor at the Battle of Monmouth. The...
30450From George Washington to Major General Benedict Arnold, 11 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 8th inst. affords me peculiar satisfaction by informing me that your wound begins to wear a favorable aspect, & that you are recovered from the disorder in your stomach—The left wing of the army is advanced four miles from this place, & 19 miles from Kings ferry—the other two divisions are moving on after it with proper intervals—the enemy since quitting the Jerseys have...