The Formal Resolution Of Their High Mightinesses.
Extract from the Register of the Resolutions of their High Mightinesses, the States-General of the United Provinces.
Monday, April 22d, 1782.
"Mr. Boreel, who presided in the Assembly the last week, has reported to their High Mightinesses and notified them, that Mr. John Adams, Envoy of the United States of America, had been with him last Saturday, and had presented to him a letter from the Assembly of Congress, written at Philadelphia, the 1st of January, 1781, containing a credence for the said Mr. Adams, to the end to reside in quality of its Minister Plenipotentiary near their High Mightinesses. Upon which, having deliberated, it has been thought fit and resolved to declare by the present, that the said Mr. Adams is agreeable to their High Mightinesses; that he shall be acknowledged in quality of Minister Plenipotentiary, and that there shall be granted to him an audience, or assigned commissioners, when he shall demand it. Information of the above shall be given to the said Mr. Adams by the agent, Van der Burch de Spieringshoek.
W. van Citters."
"Compared with the aforesaid register.
H. Fagel."
Original Documents, from the Royal Archives at the Hague, relating to the acknowledgment of the United States of America by the United Netherlands.[48]
Extract uit het Register der resolutien van de Heeren Staten der provincie Friesland van den jare 1782.
Adams te admitteeren als minister weegens het congres van Noord-America.