Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 20

To Jabez Bowen

To Eliphalet Pearson
From John Adams to Uzal Ogden, 26 June 1789 Adams, John Ogden, Uzal
To Uzal Ogden
Sir Richmond hill New York June 26 1789

I have received the letter you did me the honor to write me, on the twefth of this month, with the first number of a new periodical publication.1 I have not been able, as yet to find time to read the whole of the christian schollars and farmer’s magazine, but upon looking over several parts of it, they appear to me to correspond with the title, and to be well calculated “to promote religion, disseminate useful knowledge, and afford litterary pleasure” with the best wishes for your success, I have the honor to be Sir your most obedient and most humble servant

John Adams

LbC in CA’s hand (Adams Papers); internal address: “The Revd: / Mr Ogden. Newarak / New Jersey.”; APM Reel 115.

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Episcopal clergyman Uzal Ogden (ca. 1744–1822) served as rector of Trinity Church in Newark, N.J., from 1788 to 1805. With his letter to JA of 12 June 1789 (Adams Papers), Ogden sent the first issue of The Christian’s, Scholar’s, and Farmer’s Magazine, which was published by Shepard Kollock, editor of the New-Jersey Journal, from April 1789 to March 1791 ( ANB ; Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines, 1741–1850, Cambridge, 1966, p. 112).