To John Adams from Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob Staphorst, 23 May 1786

From Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst

Amsterdam 23d. May 1786

Sir.

We have the honor of your Excellency’s favor of 19th Instant, with a letter of the Honble: Commissioners of the Treasury Board, conveying a Remittance of ƒ144,000:–:–, as Mr. Morris is used to convey always a letter of advice with his drafts, we pray you will look among your papers for it, as messrs. Willink want the Same.1

We know of the endeavours bestowed to make Newyork concurr with the other States to grant to Congress the Impost, We are fully convinced that the Strength and wealth of the united States will yearly increase under a wise Government & raise it’s credit equal to any European power, when our people will think themselves happy to lend to your Country Millions by Millions.

We have the honor to be most respectfully / Sir / Your Excellency’s Most Humble / and Obedient Servants

Wilhem & Jan Willink
Nics. & Jacob van Staphorst

RC (Adams Papers description begins Manuscripts and other materials, 1639–1889, in the Adams Manuscript Trust collection given to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1956 and enlarged by a few additions of family papers since then. Citations in the present edition are simply by date of the original document if the original is in the main chronological series of the Papers and therefore readily found in the microfilm edition of the Adams Papers (APM). description ends ); internal address: “His Excellency John Adams Esqr.”

1. There was no letter of advice from Robert Morris, since he had resigned as superintendent of finance on 1 Nov. 1784 (vol. 17:249).

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Title: To John Adams from Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob Staphorst, 23 May 1786
Authors: Willink, Wilhem & Jan (business)
Staphorst, Nicolaas & Jacob van (business)
Recipient: Adams, John
Date: 23 May 1786

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Cite as: “To John Adams from Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob Staphorst, 23 May 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-18-02-0159. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 18, December 1785–January 1787, ed. Gregg L. Lint, Sara Martin, C. James Taylor, Sara Georgini, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, Amanda M. Norton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, pp. 306–307.]