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Enclosure: Letter of Resignation from Superior Court
Docno: PJA05d046
Recipient: Massachusetts Council
Date: 1777-02-10
[dateline] Baltimore Feby. 10. 1777
To the Honourable the Council of the State of Massachusetts Bay.
May it please your Honours
I find myself under a Necessity of resigning my Appointment to a Seat in the Superior Court;1 and I do accordingly hereby resign it, and request that Some other Gentleman may be forthwith appointed to that most honourable and important Station. I am your Honours most obliged and obedient humble Servant
[signed] John Adams
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Adams Papers
; notation: “Sent by Mr. Hall. the day of the date.”
1. JA had considered resigning earlier but had delayed his decision (vol. 4:152, 183). Perhaps the continuing opposition of the two western counties to a reopening of the courts convinced JA that the superior court needed the strength that an absent chief justice could not supply, but see his letter of 21 March to John Avery (below).
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/