record number: 331500

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Dates:

( conjectural )

Feb. 1848

Original paper slip text:[Feb. or March 1848?]

Author's location:

Salem,

Original paper slip text:[Salem]

Title:

[

Salem Register

Original paper slip text:Salem Register

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] [Poem suggested by

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA

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's death.]

Length:

2 p. (clipping)

Document Type:

JQA—Death and Funeral Honors (Feb.-April 1848)

Notes:

Two footnotes to the poem give the following information: "At 9 years of age, he heard the Declaration of Independence when it was first read from the balustrade of the Old State House in Boston, by Sheriff Henderson....on his returning [from watching the burning of Charlestown during the battle of Bunker Hill] found the inmates of his father's kitchen melting their dishes, plates &c. into bullets. On one occasion, a few years since when he had been complimented for the patriotic ardor which he had evinced during his whole life he narrated with with thrilling interest the incidents above stated, and exclaimed, ‘Who, that witnessed such scenes, could be other than a Patriot?’"
In reference to the line in the poem "while nature wept in pearly rain" a further footnote explains "John Adams died, amidst a shower."
MS notation on folder about clipping: "Lines suggested by the Death of John Quincy Adams from the Salem Register."
MS notation on folder about clipping: "Historical periods of his life." [JQA's]

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 605. TS Newspapers

Original held by:

Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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