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Dates:

( conjectural )

8 May 1769

Original paper slip text:[8 May 1769]

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA.

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Title:

Draft of instructions to Boston Representatives (

James Otis Sr.

Original paper slip text:James Otis

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Thomas Cushing

Original paper slip text:Thomas Cushing

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Samuel Adams

Original paper slip text:Samuel Adams

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, &

John Hancock

Original paper slip text:John Hancock)

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Length:

4 p. (corrections in hand of Samuel Adams and of William Cooper)

Document Type:

JA—Boston, Town of

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Notes:

In BPL, Ch.M.1.7 (20)
JA claimed authorship in his Autobiography; see D/JA, 3:291. For relationship to JA's drafts argument in Sewall v. Hancock (Liberty case), see JA. Legal Papers, under that case.LHB, 11 March 1957
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Boston Public Library

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Printed: JA, Papers, 1:224

Papers of John Adams, volume 01, page 224

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JA Works

Original paper slip text:Printed: JA, Works, 3:505–510 (see CFA note);

Full citation:

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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Boston Record Commissioners, 16th Rpt., p. 285–289 (under 8 May 1769)

Boston Gazette

Original paper slip text:Boston Gazette, 15 May 1769, p. 1, cols. 1–3

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Boston Gazette

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