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Browsing: Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 4
Enclosure: List of Articles
Docno: AFC04d012
Recipient: JA
Date: 1780-11-13
26 yards of Dutch bed tick
2 Gray muffs and tippets
2 Bundles of english pins
2 sets of House Brushes
1 doz. of blew and white china tea cups and sausers
half a doz. pint china Bowls
half a doz. diaper table cloths 2, 5 Ells wide 2 four 2 three.
one Scotch carpet 4 yards square or 6 Ells.
half a doz. white gauze handerchifs the same size that the black were
NB an Ell in Holland is but 3 quarters of our yard.
You will be so good as to find out where that young gentleman is and forward the Letter.1
RC
Adams Papers
; endorsed in Thaxter's hand: “Portia 18th.–24th. Novr. 1780.” Only one of the numerous enclosures mentioned in the text has been found; it is printed herewith; see further, Neufville & Son to AA, 25 May 1781 and enclosure.
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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