Papers of John Adams, volume 6

From Arthur Lee

The Commissioners to Sartine

292 Sartine to the Commissioners, 15 July 1778 Sartine, Antoine Raymond Jean Gualbert Gabriel de First Joint Commission at Paris JA

1778-07-15

Sartine to the Commissioners, 15 July 1778 Sartine, Antoine Raymond Jean Gualbert Gabriel de First Joint Commission at Paris Adams, John
Sartine to the Commissioners

Versailles, 15 July 1778. printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography , 4:161–162 (JA's English translation). For the French text, see Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 94. Sartine's letter concerned James Niggins and John Selby, prisoners at Nantes, who claimed to be American seamen pressed into service on an English privateer after the capture of their vessel, the ship Hancock. Sartine wished to know if the two men were known to the Commissioners as Americans and thus deserving of release.

printed: (JA, Diary and Autobiography , 4:161–162).