1From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 8 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
I Send you the Letters. If any Thing is necessary to be added to the Memorial before the Signature, you will be So good as to add it. I should be obliged to you for a Line by the Bearer, in Return, and the News, if any. My first Demarch you See, is on the Princes Birth day, which is no doubt a good omen both to his Highness and your servant. You will please to put a Wafer under the Seals. LbC...
2From John Adams to Prince Dmitri A. Gallitzin, 8 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have lately received from Congress, as one of their ministers plenipotentiary, their resolution of the fifth of October last, relative to the rights of neutral vessels, a Copy of which, I do myself the Honour, to inclose to your Excellency, as the Representative of one of the high contracting Parties, to the marine Treaty, lately concluded, concerning this Subject. As I am fixed by my duty...
3From John Adams to the Duc de La Vauguyon, 8 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have the Honour to inclose, a Copy of a Resolution of Congress of the fifth of October last, and to inform your Excellency, that I have this day communicated it, to their high Mightinesses the States General of the United Provinces, and to the Ministers of the Courts of Russia Sweeden and Denmark, at the Hague. Your Excellency will permit me to hope for your Concurrence in Support of this...
4Memorial to the States General, 8 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
The Subscriber, a minister plenipotentiary from the United States of America, has the Honour to lay before your high mightinesses, as one of the high contracting Parties to the Marine Treaty, lately concluded, relative to the rights of neutral Vessels, a Resolution of Congress of the fifth of October last, concerning the Same Subject. As the American Revolution, furnished the Occasion, of a...
5To John Adams from Thomas Digges, 8 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
It has been some Weeks since I have heard from you and indeed near a month since I wrote myself. You may easily suppose the cause, and that I had nothing material to communicate. In a former letter you mentiond to me your willingness to help Captains M——y or C——m to some pecuniary aid should they need it. The long confinement of these brave and unfortunate men makes every small donation...
6To John Adams from Alexander Gillon, 8 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
Since I have been Honoured with Your Excellency’s Reply of 12th November to my Application to You the same day in behalf of the State of South Carolina, fresh disappointments have arisen that Caused unavoidable delays, and thereby Accumulating Expences. These disappointments could not be foreseen nor expected, and were, the delay of 280 Men, all the Ammunition, and Cloathing I had paid for...
7George Washington to the Inhabitants of Newport, [8 March 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
Among the distinguished honors which have a claim to my gratitude since my arrival I have seen with peculiar satisfaction those effusions of esteem and attachment which have manifested themselves in the citizens of this antient town. My happiness is complete in a moment that unites the expression of their sentiments for me with their suffrages in favour of our allies. The conduct of the French...
8From Benjamin Franklin to ——— D’Aubenton, 8 March 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Library of Congress I received the Letters you did me the honour of writing to me the 23d. of January last, and the 24th of February. Knowing nothing of the Affair which is the Subject of the Memoir your Letter enclos’d, I have taken occasion to make Enquiries of such Persons as arrived here from Philadelphia, but hitherto without receiving any Information, except that Mr John...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Gérard de Rayneval, 8 March 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I am honour’d with your Letter of this Day and shall accordingly take Care to be with M. le Comte de Vergennes before 10. o Clock on Saturday next. Be pleased to present my Respects to his Excellency, & belive me to be with perfect Esteem. Sir, Rayneval’s letter is missing. What transpired at the March 10 meeting is described in the notation to BF ’s March 6 letter to...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Gourlade & Moylan, 8 March 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received yours of the 2d. Instant, relating to a Passport for the 198 Cases of Musket Barrels. Inclos’d I send you what has already pass’d on the Subject of the same Parcel of Arms, which I apprehend will make any farther Application to Ministry unnecessary. I suppose too that Mr Williams may have in his Possession some Copy of the general Orders...