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Feb. 1776 to Mar. 1776

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John Adams

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John Penn

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2 p. (typescript; text incomplete)
  • Typescript prepared from printing in Taylor's Inquiry. Early version of Thoughts on Government. See RC at slip
    011753

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  • Written shortly before 27 March 1776, when Hooper and Penn set off from Phila. to No. Car. convention; see Burnett, ed. Letters of Members, 1:1viii.
  • John Penn MSS
  • Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 8/20/2015

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JA Works

Original paper slip text:Printed: JA, Works, 4:203–209, from John Taylor, Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States, New Haven, 1950, p. 452–458 (originally published at Fredericksburg, 1814).

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The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1850–1856
10 vols.

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