365 links the sum of 5,840_l._ For the ring and the S of this chain, cash 80_l._ ----- 5,920_l._ ----- Total for both chains 8,540_l._ No. 20. (p. 127) PLATE XXI. _March 4, 1797--March 4, 1801._ John Adams President of the U.S. A.D. 1797. [Rx]. Peace and friendship. PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS. [_Second President of the United States of America._] JOHN ADAMS PRESIDENT OF THE U. S. (_United States_) A. D. (_Anno Domini: The year of our Lord_) 1797. Bust of President John Adams, facing the right. PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP. Two hands clasped in token of amity; on the cuff of the left wrist three stripes, and buttons with the American eagle on them; the other wrist bare; above the hands, a calumet and a tomahawk crossed--Indian emblems of peace and war. JOHN ADAMS was born at Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts, October 19, 1735. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1755, studied law, and settled in Boston in 1768; he was a delegate to Congress, 1774-1778; serving on the Boards of Naval and of Foreign Affairs, and also on the Board of War; commissioner to France, 1778; to Holland, 1780; minister to Holland, 1782; to England, 1785-1788; vice-president of the United States, 1789-1793; President of the United States, 1797-1801. He retired to Quincy in 1801, and died there, July 4, 1826, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Independence of the United States, and on the same day with Thomas Jefferson. No. 21. (p. 128) PLATE XXII. _February 2, 1800._ Patriæ. patres. filio. digno. Thomas Truxtun. [Rx]. United State frigate Constellation, of 38 guns, &c. CAPTAIN THOMAS TRUXTUN. [_Action with the Vengeance._] PATRIÆ. PATRES. FILIO. DIGNO. THOMAS TRUXTUN. (_The fathers of the country to their worthy son, Thomas Truxtun._) Bust of Captain Truxtun, in uniform, facing the left. UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONSTELLATION OF 38 GUNS PURSUES ATTACKS AND VANQUISHES THE FRENCH SHIP LA VENGEANCE OF 54 GUNS 1 FEBY. (_February_) 1800. Naval action between the United States frigate Constellation, of thirty-eight guns, Captain Truxtun, and the French frigate La Vengeance, of fifty-four guns, Captain Pitot. The Constellation has lost her main mast. Exergue: BY VOTE OF CONGRESS, TO THOMAS TRUXTUN 29 MAR. (_March_) 1800.[71] [Footnote 71: See INTRODUCTION, pages xxiii and xxxi.] The engraving is an exact representation of the original gold medal, at present the property of Thomas Truxtun Houston, jr., of Washington, the great-grandson, in the female line, of Commodore Truxtun.