John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 96, 19 July 1780

To the President of Congress, No. 96

Paris, 19 July 1780. RC in John Thaxter’s hand (PCC, No. 84, II, f. 201–206). printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. description begins The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, ed. Francis Wharton, Washington, D.C., 1889; 6 vols. description ends , 3:867–869.

This letter, read in Congress on 26 Dec., begins with brief reports from St. Petersburg and Copenhagen concerning preparations of the Russian, Danish, and Swedish navies to protect their merchant vessels under the terms of the armed neutrality. Adams then fulfilled the promise made in his letter of 15 July (No. 93, calendared, above) by providing the complete text of Catherine II’s ordinance of 19 May establishing the duties and responsibilities of her subjects in maintaining a strict Russian neutrality in the midst of the Anglo-French naval war.

RC in John Thaxter’s hand (PCC, No. 84, II, f. 201–206). printed: (Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. description begins The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, ed. Francis Wharton, Washington, D.C., 1889; 6 vols. description ends , 3:867–869.)

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Title: John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 96, 19 July 1780
Author: Adams, John
Recipients: President of Congress
Huntington, Samuel
Date: 19 July 1780

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Cite as: “John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 96, 19 July 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-10-02-0007. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 10, July 1780 – December 1780, ed. Gregg L. Lint and Richard Alan Ryerson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, pp. 12–13.]