Braintree
August th 15 1774
I know not where this will find you whether upon the road, or at
Phylidelphia, but where-ever it is I hope it will find you in good Health and
Spirits. Your Journey I immagine must have been very
tedious from the extreem heat of the weather and the dustiness of the road's.
We are burnt up with the drouth, having had no rain since you left us, nor is
there the least apperance of any. I was much gratified upon the return of some
of your Friends from Watertown who gave me an account of your Scocial Dinner,
and friendly parting. May your return meet merrit, and meet with the Gratefull acknowledgments of every well wisher to their
Country. Your task is difficult and important. Heaven direct and prosper you. I
find from Mr. A--r of B--r that the chief justice is determined to take his
Seat, and that the court shall proceed to Buisness
if posible, even tho the
Sheriff should be obliged to return no other but the late addressers. He talks
as he always used to-sometimes one
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thing sometimes
an other, pretends the money would not have been
collected in that town for the congress if he had not exerted himself,
tho it seems he
staid till
the eleventh hour, and it did not get to town before you left it. I found by a
hint he dropd that he used all his influence to surpress the Nonconsumption
agreement which some of them had drawn up to sign, and that he has
inlisted himself
intirely under the influence of the ch[ie]f J[ustic]e. He
also expresses great Bitterness against C[olone]l W[arre]n of P[lymout]h for
encourageing young Morton to setle there & seems gratified with the thought
of his loosing his place, &c -- So much for
politicks -- now for our own
Domestick affairs. Mr. Rice came this afternoon.
and He and Mr. Thaxter are
setled over at
the office. Crosby has given up the School, and as it is to move to the other
parish Mr. Rice cannot have it. I must therefore agree with them to take the
care of John, and school him with them, which
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will perhaps be better
for him than going to the Town School. I shall reckon over every week as they
pass, and rejoice at every Saturday evening. I hope to hear from you by Mr.
Cunningham when he returns
tho I know not when that
will be but he was so kind as to send me word that he was going and would take
a letter for me.
Our little ones send their Duty to their Pappa, and the Gentlemen their
respects-and that which at all times and in all places evermore attends you is
the
most affectionate regard of your
Abigail Adams
