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John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Octr. 4th. 1762
By the same Token that the Bearer ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Braintree Feby. 14th. 1763
Accidents are often more Friendly ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith

Docno: AFC01d005

Author: JA
Recipient: AA
Date: 1762 - 1763

[dateline] [Braintree? 1762–1763 ] 1

[salute] Dr. Miss Jemima

I have taken the best Advice, on the subject of your Billet, and I find you cannot compell me to pay unless I refuse Marriage; which I never did, and never will, but on the Contrary am ready to have you at any Time.

[salute] Yours,

[signed] Jonathan
I hope Jemima's Conscience has as good a Memory as mine.
RC Adams Papers ; addressed: “To Miss —— Weymouth.”
 
1. There is no clue to the precise date of this note, the “Billet” to which it is a reply not having been found.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/