1John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 August 1778 (Adams Papers)
I have neither Time, nor Confidence enough in the Opportunity, to write you any Thing more, than an Assurance that We are all well, anxiously wishing for News from America. 3d. June is the last We have had from Boston. Not a Word of D’Estaing. Never was the Spirits of a Nation, higher than the French. Never Nation had more Cause for Dejection than England. They are now censuring Keppell, who...
2John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Cranch, 14 August 1778 (Adams Papers)
by your desire I now sit down to write a few lines to you and not yet having wrote to you I cannot let this oportunity pass without writing. my Pappa has received two or three packets from my mamma in which she said our family and Freinds were all well as I hope this will find them. I have nothing material to write having given an account of my voyage and travels to my Mamma. I am your...
3From John Adams to the President of the Congress, 14 August 1778 (Adams Papers)
I have the Honour to inclose to Congress a few of the public Papers, which contain all the News that is passing. As it is uncertain by what Vessell the Gentleman will go who takes this, the Conveyance is too precarious, to send any Thing which ought not to be known to the Enemy. We are waiting with an impatient Anxiety, to hear from America, the last Accounts from thence having been brought by...
4To John Adams from Edmé Jacques Genet, 14 August 1778 (Adams Papers)
J’ai traduit ce jour ci une lettre d’un armateur américain à Nantes, en datte du 8. août, qui se plaint que deux de ses vaisseaux lui ont étá enlevés en sortant de Pamboeuf, et demande certaines facilités pour la Courses. Il m’a été impossible de lire Sa Signature, et c’est la seconde fois que je me trouve dans cet embarras. Je l’ai figurée sur le papier ci joint, pour vous prier de vouloir...
5Edmé Jacques Genet to John Adams: A Translation, 14 August 1778 (Adams Papers)
I have today translated a letter dated 8 August from an American shipowner at Nantes who complains that two of his vessels were taken coming out of Paimboeuf and requests certain facilities in regard to the privateers. Because it has been impossible to read his signature, the second time that I have met with this embarrassment, I have copied it on the enclosed piece of paper and ask you to...
6From John Adams to Edmé Jacques Genet, 14 August 1778 (Adams Papers)
I Have the Honour of yours of the 14. By the Imitation you inclose, I have no dout that the Name of the Writer of the Letter you mention is John Ross. Such a Person there is at Nantes a Merchant who has been concerned in American Trade, who often corresponds with the Commissioners here by which means I am in Possession of many of his Letters and am become well acquainted with his Signature. I...
7Barbeu-Dubourg to the American Commissioners, 14 August 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je prens la liberté de vous adresser M. de Vic dont le fils M. de Bois Bertrand etoit passé en Amerique vers le mois de juin ou de juillet 1776 a la recommandation de M. Penet qui lui avoit fait esperer le grade de Lieutenant Colonel ou même de Colonel. Nous avons appris depuis qu’en arrivant au Continent ses services y furent agréés, mais qu’il fut pris...
8To Benjamin Franklin from David Hartley, 14 August 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I writ to you as long ago as the 14th of the last month to tell you that the administration here had given their consent to the exchange of prisoners at Calais, and that they would agree to give any ship on your part a free passport from Brest to Calais, upon your sending me a similar assurance that any British ship going to Calais for the purpose of the...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Honoré-Sébastien Vial du Clairbois, 14 August 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je vous suplie d’agréer un exemplair de mon livre sur l’architecture navale. C’est un homage que je crois devoir au Philosophe-homme d’état: Et d’ailleurs il est independant de toute raison particuliere. Je suis avec respec Monsieur Votre très humble et très obeissant Serviteur Endorsed: Vial du Clairbois with a Book on Naval Architecture Notation: 14 Aout...
10General Orders, 14 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
A Detachment of Light Dragoons commanded by a Field Officer to join the Light Infantry this afternoon and to be relieved Weekly. The General Court-Martial whereof Majr General Lord-Stirling is President is dissolved—Also that whereof Colonel Hall is President; and another order’d to sit at the usual place tomorrow morning nine ôClock to try all such Persons as shall be bro’t before them—Coll...