John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 4, 24 August 1780

To the President of Congress, No. 4

Amsterdam Aug. 24. 1780

Sir

I have only time by this Vessell to inclose the declarations of Sweeden and Denmark;1 but the chance of her going safe is so small that I should not send any thing very material, if I had more time. I have the Honour to be &c.

LbC (Adams Papers); notation: “recd in congress Decr. 3.” According to the Journal of Congress, this letter was read on 4 Dec. (JCC description begins Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford, Gaillard Hunt, John C. Fitzpatrick, Roscoe R. Hill, and others, Washington, D.C., 1904–1937; 34 vols. description ends , 18:1116), but it is not in the PCC.

1. See JA’s letter to the president of Congress of 14 Aug., No. 1 (above).

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Title: John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 4, 24 August 1780
Author: Adams, John
Recipients: President of Congress
Huntington, Samuel
Date: 24 August 1780

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Cite as: “John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 4, 24 August 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-10-02-0046. [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, p. 87.]