The Commissioners to Thomas Simpson, 3 June 1778

The Commissioners to Thomas Simpson

Passy, 3 June 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 , 4:124. This letter informed Simpson that the Commissioners had ordered John Paul Jones to grant a parole so that he could go to Nantes in order to take the first opportunity to sail for America.

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 , 4:124).

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: The Commissioners to Thomas Simpson, 3 June 1778
Authors: First Joint Commission at Paris
Adams, John
Recipient: Simpson, Thomas
Date: 3 June 1778

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Cite as: “The Commissioners to Thomas Simpson, 3 June 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-06-02-0128. [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. 175.]