21 Dec. 1771
Original paper slip text:21 Dec. 1771.
4 p.
JA—Legal Papers
- Account with John Hancock for JA's legal services from March 1769–December 1771. Co-signed by John Hancock.
- Offered for sale, Item # 5100, Gallery of History, Las Vegas, July 1993.
- Offered for sale by Sotheby's, 26 April 1983.
- ADS offered for sale, Flying Quill, June 1964, item 1.
- A detailed account of legal services as John Hancock's lawyer for the period between March 1769 and January 1772. Page one identifies the cases and individuals with costs. Page two (A.D.S.) summarizes the payments from Hancock and concludes with a general receipt. At the foot of page one Adams wrote "The affair in the Admiralty is omitted for the Present. Mr. Price has promised to give me the Particulars Tomorrow—I had much rather leave that to Mr. Hancock's Pleasure, but if he choose to have me make an account of it, I will do it tomorrow."
- Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 8/17/2015
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