Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 9

To the President of Congress, No. 14

William Gordon to John Adams and Francis Dana
To the President of Congress, No. 15, 8 March 1780 JA Huntington, Samuel President of Congress

1780-03-08

 To the President of Congress, No. 15, 8 March 1780 Adams, John Huntington, Samuel President of Congress
To the President of Congress, No. 15

Paris, 8 March 1780.. RC in John Thaxter's hand (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 311). LbC (Adams Papers); notation in Thaxter's hand: “March 10th. Delivered 25the above to Mr Brown of Charlestown S. Carolina.”printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. , 3:539.

In this letter, read by Congress on 11 Sept., John Adams reported the false rumor that Louis Charles, Comte du Chaffault de Besné was to command in the West Indies and Charles Henri Théodat, Comte d'Estaing in the Channel, and enclosed newspapers from Paris, The Hague, and Amsterdam, all dating from the first week in March.

RC in John Thaxter's hand (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 311.) LbC (Adams Papers); notation in Thaxter's hand: “March 10th. Delivered the above to Mr Brown of Charlestown S. Carolina.” printed: (Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. , 3:539.)