1. Committee of Commerce to the Commissioners at Paris, 9 Feb., 1778, Letters of Delegates 9: 61-62. The Commissioners at Paris responded stating that John Bondfield at Bordeaux and Jean-Daniel Schweighauser at Nantes were the only authorized commercial agents, and that they would appoint more if necessary, but thought it best to await the appointment of consuls by Congress. American Commissioners in France to the President of Congress, 20 July, 1778, Diary and Autobiography of John Adam, Lyman H. Butterfield, et al., eds. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1961), 4: 167-70.