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Mass. House of Repr. Reply to 6 Jan. 1773 message re locus of sovereignty in the British Empire
14 p.
  • Re background and authorship see JA to Wm. Tudor, 8 March 1817 (JA, Works, 2:310–313); CFA in same 1:118–124; Hutchinson, Mass, Bay, ed. Mayo, 3:266–277. D/JA/19 (14 March 1773). Wills, Samuel Adams 2:31 ff.
  • According to Gov. Hutchinson, JA, though formally not a member of the committee charged with the task of drawing up this Reply, was, along with Joseph Hawley and Samuel Adams, one of the 3 "persons who had the greatest share in preparing it." Hutchinson, Mass. Bay, ed. Mayo, 3:266–267
  • There was an earlier printing in The Speeches of . . . Governor Hutchinson . . . . With the Answers, Boston, 1773 (Evans 12856 [copy in MHS]).
  • LCF, 11 Feb. 1957
  • Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 8/19/2015

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