record number: 011712

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Dates:

( conjectural )

Feb. 1776 to Mar. 1776

Original paper slip text:[Feb.–March 1776]

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

John Penn

Original paper slip text:to John Penn

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Title:

Length:

2 p. (typescript; text incomplete)

Notes:

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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Duke University Library

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Printed :

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).

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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