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Dates:

12 May 1784

Original paper slip text:12 May 1784

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Benjamin Franklin

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Thomas Jefferson

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: Commission from Congress to negotiate a treaty with Russia

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Length:

5 p. (copy)

Document Type:

JA—Commissions

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Notes:

RG 59, PCC, No. 116
Similar commissions were issued for: Germany, Prussia, Denmark, Saxony, Hamburg, England, Spain, Portugal, Naples, Sardinia, The Pope, Venice, Genoa, Tuscany, The Porte, Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli

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From the collection: RG 59: General Records of the Dept. of State, Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

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