record number: 151381

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Dates:

8 Oct. 1815

Original paper slip text:8 Oct. 1815.

Author's location:

Quincy, MA

Original paper slip text:Quincy

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

L. H. Girardin

Original paper slip text:L. H. Girardin

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Length:

4 p.

Notes:

Dreer Coll., Presidents, 1:24
ALS offered for sale, The Collector, July–Sept. 1894, p. 115. $30.00
"* * * Joseph Adams, Senior, the only one of the eight sons of Henry, who settled in this place, was an original proprietor in the township of Braintree. * * * * Samuel Adams and John Adams were both descended from Henry, but not by two of his sons. They descended from two of the sons of Joseph Adams, Junior, the oldest son of Joseph, Senior. Samuel was descended from John Adams, a merchant in Boston, and a younger son of Joseph, Senior. * * * J. Q. Adams' father did not "receive permission to come home." He was left in the most awkward position imaginable; but he took upon himself the resolution to return home, and run the Gauntlett a second time, through the thousand ships of war of Great Britain, and ran the risque of the Tower, and the hurdle and the axe. * * * Justice is not done to J. Q. A. His acquirements in Science and Literature have been equal to those of any public man I ever knew in America—Jefferson and Madison not excepted. In Mathematics, in Physics, in Chemistry, and in Natural History, his Proficiency need not shrink from a comparison with the proudest sons of France in political or military life. * * * He is now Min. Plen. in London, with his wife and three sons. * * * His letters to the public offices and to his Friends in America, written from Europe for the last twenty years, would form a History of the European and American world for the whole of that period."
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The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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PMHB

Original paper slip text:Printed: PMHB, 25:358–360.

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Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.

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