Summer – Dutch banker
Nicolaas van Staphorst leads discussions with
John Adams over a loan to the United States of five million
guilders, at that time a considerable sum.
Date unknown –
George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1831 to 1835 (died
1843)
Deaths
August 27 –
John Laurens, American soldier and statesman during the Revolutionary War, best known for his efforts to emancipate slaves (killed fighting the British in South Carolina). (born
1754)