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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams
Docno: AFC03d181
Recipient: AA
Date: 1779-11-20
[dateline] At Sea Novr. 20th 1779
[salute] Hon'd Mamma
This moment gives me an Opportunity of writing to you but I have very little to write. We are now about 200 leagues from Boston and
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have been [very?]
1 lucky till now; we had a little storm but it did us but little damage.
My young freind Sammy Cooper is a very agreable young Gentleman who makes me more happy on the voyage than I should have been without him; as to his Language I have not heard him say any thing amiss till now. But I must conclude in being your dutiful son,
[signed] J Q Adams
RC
Adams Papers
; addressed: “Mrs. John Adams Braintree near Boston To be sunk in Case of Danger.”
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/
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