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Dates:

26 Jan. 1773

Original paper slip text:26 Jan. 1773

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:[JA

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Samuel Adams

Original paper slip text:Samuel Adams

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, &

Joseph Hawley

Original paper slip text:Joseph Hawley

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] (for Mass. House of Representatives)

Title:

Mass. House of Repr. Reply to

Thomas Hutchinson

Original paper slip text:Gov. Hutchinson's

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6 Jan. 1773 message re locus of sovereignty in the British Empire

Length:

14 p.

Document Type:

JA—Mass. General Court: Speeches and Writings

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Notes:

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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Mass Speeches

Original paper slip text:Printed: Mass., Speeches of the Governors, &c., 1765–1775, p. 351–365 (and see below), under date 25 Jan. 1772

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Speeches of the Governors of Massachusetts, 1765-1775 : the answers of the House of Representatives thereto
with their resolutions and addresses for that period. And other public papers relating to the dispute between this country and Great Britain which led to the independence of the United States, ed. Alden Bradford. New York 1971, c1818.

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Printed: JA, Papers, 1:315

Papers of John Adams, volume 01, page 315

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Mass House Jour

Original paper slip text:Printed: Mass., House Jour., 1772–1774, p. 177–190

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Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts [1715–1779], Boston, 1919–1990
55 vols.

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