The Commissioners to Abraham Whipple, 16 July 1778

The Commissioners to Abraham Whipple

Passy, 16 July 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 , 4:162–163. The Commissioners informed Whipple of Thomas Simpson’s appointment to command the Ranger as part of a force under Whipple’s overall direction. He was ordered to make every effort to take or destroy the Jersey and Guernsey privateers and to leave his prisoners with whomever J. D. Schweighauser might direct.

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 , 4:162–163).

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: The Commissioners to Abraham Whipple, 16 July 1778
Authors: First Joint Commission at Paris
Adams, John
Recipient: Whipple, Abraham
Date: 16 July 1778

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Cite as: “The Commissioners to Abraham Whipple, 16 July 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-06-02-0227. [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. 292.]