record number: 012367

yellow

The color yellow indicates documents held in other manuscript collections at the MHS, public and private repositories, or the collections of private owners.

Dates:

( conjectural )

16 Sep. 1776 to 19 Sep. 1776

Original paper slip text:16 [-19] Sept. 1776

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

Search all documents with this name as: author, recipient, either

Title:

Resolves of

Continental Congress

Original paper slip text:Continental Congress

Search all documents with this name as: author, recipient, either

for raising 88 battalions, establishing bounties, &c. Adopted by Congress, 16, 19 Sept. 1776; see Series II,

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

Search all documents with this name as: author, recipient, either

Abigail Smith Adams

Original paper slip text:to AA

Search all documents with this name as: author, recipient, either

, 22 Sept.–1 Oct. 1776, and references there to D/JA, &c. JA was principal author.

Document Type:

JA—Continental Congress: Speeches and Writings

Search all records with this category

Notes:

Broadside, without imprint [Phila.: John Dunlap, 1776] (JCC, 6:1125; Evans 15167)
MHi: Broadside Coll. (2 copies)
N.B. See note on JA to AA, 22 Sept.–1 Oct. 1776, concerning JA's authorship.
Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 8/20/2015

Find this document

Original held by:

Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Broadside Collection.

visit this institution's website opens in a new tab/window

Printed :Printed in Penna. Gazette, 25 Sept. and as a broadside (JCC, 6:1125, No. 126
Evans 15167)
copy in MHS: Broadsides.;

Bookmark this record

Open in a new window to bookmark a display of this record only, or copy the contents of the box below and paste in an email:

click to open a display suitable for printing.