John Adams’ French-English Pocket Dictionary was authored by Nugent,who translated the 1797 Law of Nations.
Not sure if this helps.
Not sure if this helps.
Don't see it as significant one way or the other, but good to know anyway. More relevant is the fact that John Adams LIVED with Charles W.F. Dumas for months while he was soliciting European support for the American War effort.
John Adams actually lived in the house of the guy who PUBLISHED "Droit des Gens", and who sent the books to Benjamin Franklin. The notion that Adams and Dumas would not have discussed the book of Vattel that Dumas published and which the Continental Congress was ravenously devouring is just too much of stretch of probability.
John Quincy Adams also stayed with Charles Dumas when he visited the Hauge. Dumas was in fact, an Agent of the US Government, and paid by the Continental Congress.