1From John Adams to Pieter van Bleiswyck, 19 April 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have the Honour to inclose to your Excellency a Copy of a Memorial to their High Mightinesses the States General of the United Provinces. With the greatest Respect and Consideration, I have the Honour to be, Sir, your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble Servant. RC in John Thaxter’s hand ( Adams Papers ). LbC ( Adams Papers ) Signed by JA , this is likely the copy of the letter he...
2Memorial to the States General, 19 April 1781 (Adams Papers)
The Subscriber has the Honour to propose to your High Mightinesses, that the United States of America, in Congress Assembled, have lately thought fit to send him a Commission (with full Powers and Instructions) to confer with your High Mightinesses, concerning a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, an authentic Copy of which he has the Honour to annex to this Memorial. At the Times, when the Treaties...
3Memorial to William V, Prince of Orange, 19 April 1781 (Adams Papers)
The Subscriber has the Honour to inform your most Serene Highness, that the United States of America, in Congress assembled, impressed with a deep Sense of your Wisdom and Magnanimity, and being desirous of cultivating the Friendship of your Highness and of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands, who have ever distinguished themselves by an inviolable Attachment to Freedom and the...
4To John Adams from Alvarez & Havart, 19 April 1781 (Adams Papers)
The known Caracter of Your Excellency dispenses us with making any apology for the liberty we take to Address your Excellency with the present, but the happy turn circumstances have lately taken in this Republicq must naturally make to great an impression upon every free born Man, especially upon such a one, who from the beginning of the American troubles with England has consider’d their...
5George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 18–19 April 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
New Windsor [ New York ] April 18–19 , 1781 . Discusses prospects of supplies for Army. Df , in writings of Tench Tilghman and H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. The postscript of this letter is dated April 19.
6From Alexander Hamilton to Major General Nathanael Greene, 19 April 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
I acknowlege myself to have been unpardonably delinquent in not having written to you before; but my matrimonial occupations have scarcely left me leisure or inclination for any other. I must now be brief as the post is just setting out. I shall shortly write you at large. I have not been much in the way of knowing sentiments out of the army; but as far as I am acquainted with them either in...
7George Washington to Major General Nathanael Greene, 19 April 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
New Windsor [ New York ] April 19, 1781 . Is pleased with Greene’s successful attack on Cornwallis. States that the southern situation is still critical and that a new British expedition is preparing for either Delaware, Virginia, or North Carolina. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
8From Benjamin Franklin to the Vicomte de Bondoire, 19 April 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 14th Instant, requesting that I would obtain Information for you what was become of some Sugars sent by M. d’Admirat of Guadaloupe to New England, more than a year since. New England is a large Country containing several Provinces or States, each of them having many Seaports, and many...
9To Benjamin Franklin from the Abbé Morellet, [19 April 1781] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Ma soeur ma niece et mr. marmontel etant près de s’aller etablir à la campagne cet etè ont un grand desir d’aller vous voir dimanche matin jour auquel made helvetius leur donne à diner. Si vous leur accordes cette permission j’ose vous prie d’y joindre une autre grace celle de leur envoyer votre carosse seulement pour se rendre chès vous me. helvetius les...
10To Benjamin Franklin from Achille-Guillaume Lebègue de Presle, 19 April 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je prie votre Excellence d’agreer Les assurances de mon respect et supposer qu’elle n’ait plus besoin des Lettres de William Pen, de vouloir bien les remettre au porteur de ce billet, parceque jai promis de les rendre a mon retour a Paris qui sera mardi ou mercredi. Si votre excellence a occasion d’envoyer a Paris faire quelque commission je lui serai...