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[Samuel Cooke's Bills for Board.1 ]
Docno: DJA02d223
Recipient: JA
Date: 1775-08-24
| The Honble. John Adams Esqr. to Saml. Cook | Dr. | ||
| 1775 | |||
| Augst. 24th. | To Boarding your Lady & Self 3 days | £0: | 12: |
| To 3 days Keeping yr. Horse | 3: | ||
| £0: | 15: | ||
[signed] Received the Contents in full for my Brother Saml. Cooke
| The Honble. John Adams to Samll. Cooke junr. | Dr. | ||
| To boardg: 6 days @ 2/ | £0: | 12. | 0 |
| To breakfasting & dining 4 persons @ 9/ | 3. | ||
| To keeping your horse 4 nights @ 1/ | 4. | ||
| £0. | 19 | ||
[signed] Received the above in full Saml. Cooke junr.
1. M-Ar: vol. 210, where it is followed by the second (undated) bill from Cooke, printed here without a separate caption. Cooke's was presumably in Watertown, where JA was attending the Massachusetts Council. AA was with him there from the 22d through the 24th (AA to Mercy Otis Warren, 27 Aug., MHi). In a list of Council members and their expenses authorized for payment on 11 Sept. JA is stated to have attended Council nine days during the first session of the new General Court (M-Ar: vol. 164).
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/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/