References

John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 31 March 1778 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:406]+

Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 22 January 1786 [Adams Family Correspondence 7:28]

[Draft of a Letter to Vergennes, 10–11 February 1779.]Confidential [Diary and Autobiography of John Adams 2:350]

[May 21. Thursday 1778.] [Diary and Autobiography of John Adams 4:106]

[July 9. 1778.] [Diary and Autobiography of John Adams 4:154]

[July 10. 1778.] [Diary and Autobiography of John Adams 4:157]

From Thomas Digges, 26 September 1780 [Papers of John Adams 10:182]+

19. To Hendrik Calkoen, 26 October 1780 [Papers of John Adams 10:245]+

From William Lee, 17 December 1780 [Papers of John Adams 10:418]

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– Manifesto and Proclamation [1 reference]

– AA’s judgment on [1 reference]

– Amer. reaction to Manifesto [9 references]

– British reaction to work of [6 references]

– Continental Congress and [4 references]

– JA on [7 references]

– JA on work of [4 references]

– Manifesto as justification for French naval reinforcements [3 references]

– and Johnstone’s effort to bribe members of the congress [3 references]

– and a separate peace [5 references]

– arrival in America [2 references]

– arrives at R.I. [1 reference]

– attempt to bribe Joseph Reed [1 reference]

– charges that congress violated Saratoga Convention [2 references]

– creation and membership of [2 references]

– failure of [1 reference]

– members [2 references]

– mentioned [3 references]

– negotiations with Congress [3 references]

– prospects [1 reference]

– responses to Manifesto published in Affaires [3 references]

– return to England [1 reference]

– rumors about [1 reference]

– satirized [2 references]

– to go to America [1 reference]

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