Papers of John Adams, volume 16

From Wilhem & Jan Willink

Memorial to the States General

TRANSLATION
High and Mighty Lords Done at The Hague, 2 July 17841

The undersigned Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America has the honor of entreating Your High Mightinesses to be so kind as to have dispatched or to grant to him a passport for free entry or an order to the admiralty allowing free passage, without payment of duties, of two trunks or chests and one case marked I. A. containing books belonging to 266 the undersigned and come from London to Rotterdam aboard the ship Prince William Henry, Captain Woodward.2

Signed John Adams.