Papers of John Adams, volume 16
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
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the undersigned and come from London to Rotterdam aboard the ship Prince William Henry, Captain Woodward.2