Certification of John Adams’ Shipment of Books
ds: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Passy March 2. 1779

These certify, that the Box or Caise which accompanies this contains only a Quantity of Books belonging to the Honourable John Adams, one of the late Commissioners from the United States of America, and that they are intended for Nantes in their Way to America.— All concerned are requested to permit them to pass.

B Franklin
Minister Plenipotentiary
from the United States
to the Court of France.
Notation in Franklin’s hand: Certificate for Mr Adams’s Box of Books
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