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Dates:

( conjectural ) ante

27 Mar. 1776

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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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Length:

8 p.

Notes:

MS: Washburn Coll., 5:9
Note: Holograph of an early version of JA's Thoughts on Government, 1776. This is clearly the original given to Penn prior to 27 March 1776, which later came into the possession of John Taylor of Caroline, Penn's son-in-law. Printed in Taylor's Inquiry ..., 1814 (New Haven, repr. 1950, p. 452–458), and from there by CFA in JA, Works, 4:203–209.
KRS rev. 2 Jan 1985

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Printed: JA, Papers, 4:78 at [ante 27 March 1776]

Papers of John Adams, volume 04, page 78

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Letters of Delegates

Original paper slip text:PRINTED: Paul H. Smith ed., Letters of Delegates to Congress 3:399ff. at [19–27? March 1776]

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Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789, ed. Paul H. Smith and others, Washington, D.C., 1976–2000
26 vols.

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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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