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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:

William Hooper

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(early version of his Thoughts on Government)

Length:

8 p. (transcript)

Notes:

(Filmed at 15 June 1846.)
Text varies markedly from those of JA to Penn and to Wythe.
Given to JQA by Charles Phillips, Secretary of the Historical Society of the University of North Carolina, 15 June 1846; see D/JQA under that date. Original then in possession of that Society.

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 535

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Printed: JA, Papers, 4:73

Papers of John Adams, volume 04, page 73

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