A website from the Massachusetts Historical Society; founded 1791.
close

Browsing: Diary of John Adams, Volume 4

See this volume's table of contents
See this volume's table of contents

This quotation contained in document DJA04d110
Docno: DJA04Q76
Author: Franklin, Benjamin
Author: Lee, Arthur
Author: JA
Recipient: President of Congress
Recipient: Laurens, Henry
Date: 1778-07-16

[Commissioners to the President of Congress]

[addrLine] To the President of Congress

[dateline] Passi July 16. 1778

[salute] Sir

We have the Honour of inclosing a Copy of a Letter from his Excellency Monsieur De Sartine, The Minister of State for the Marine of this Kingdom in Answer to which We have had the Honour to assure his Excellency that We would embrace the first Opportunity of communicating it to Congress.4
[signed] B. Franklin,
[signed] Arthur Lee,
[signed] John Adams.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/