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Topic: The American Revolution and Constitution

( Translation. ) Extract from the record of the resolutions of their High Mightinesses the Lords the States General of the United Netherlands. - John Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 8 (Letters and State Papers 1782-1799) [1853]

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The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, by his Grandson Charles Francis Adams (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856). 10 volumes. Vol. 8.

Part of: The Works of John Adams, 10 vols.

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(Translation.)

Extract from the record of the resolutions of their High Mightinesses the Lords the States General of the United Netherlands.

Mr. de Wassenaar Catwyke, the president of the assembly, brought forward and made known the fact to their High Mightinesses, that Mr. Adams, minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, had been at his house this morning, and had delivered to him, sealed up, a resolution adopted the 5th of October, 1787, by the United States of America, in congress assembled, by which it was allowed to Mr. Adams, at his request, to return to America, and to close his commission as minister plenipotentiary near their High Mightinesses; and that he had, at the same time, presented a memorial, by which

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MEDAL Presented to John Adams on his taking leave as Minister By the States of Holland 5 March 1788.

he takes leave of their High Mightinesses, which memorial is in the terms following:—