To John Adams from David Griffith, 26 June 1786

From David Griffith

Philadelphia 26th. June 1786

Sir,

The General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church acknowledge themselves greatly obliged to your Excellency, for your kind attention to their religious concerns, in forwarding their endeavours to obtain Consecration for Bishops, and such a succession in the Orders of her Ministry as is most conformable to their Principles, and agreeable to their wishes.

Having instructions, from the Convention, to transmit, to your Excellency, their Vote of thanks, I do myself the hoñor, now, to inclose it.

With the greatest respect for your Character, both private and publick, I have the hoñor to be, Your Excellency’s, most humble / and Obedient Servt.

David Griffith, Prest.

ENCLOSURE

June 24th. 17861

In Convention

Resolved that the Thanks of this Convention be given to his Excellency John Adams Esqr. Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Great Britain, for his kind attention to the concerns of this Church, and that the President be desired to transmit the same.

Extract from the Minutes

Fras. Hopkinson Secry.

RC and enclosure (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 Excelly. John Adams Esqr.” Enclosure filmed at 24 June.

1. This resolution was adopted at a general convention of the American Episcopal Church that met at Christ Church in Philadelphia between 20 and 26 June. At the same time that it voted its thanks to JA, the convention also recognized the assistance given by Richard Henry Lee, John Jay, and Richard Peters (Journals of General Conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States, 1785–1835, ed. William Stevens Perry, Claremount, N.H., 1874, p. 43). Peters, former secretary of the Continental Board of War and Pennsylvania member of Congress, facilitated the ordination of American bishops during a visit to England in 1785 (DAB description begins Allen Johnson, Dumas Malone, and others, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, New York, 1928–1936; repr. New York, 1955–1980; 10 vols. plus index and supplements. description ends ).

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Title: To John Adams from David Griffith, 26 June 1786
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Date: 26 June 1786

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Cite as: “To John Adams from David Griffith, 26 June 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-18-02-0192. [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. 356–357.]