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Benjamin Franklin and John Adams to the Massachusetts Council
Docno: PJA07d021
Recipient: Massachusetts Council
Date: 1778-09-09
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[dateline] Passy, 9 September 1778.
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in Adams' hand PPAmP. printed (with enclosure): Magazine of American History, 12:462–463 (Nov. 1884). Franklin and Adams sent the Council a letter of 10 Aug. from Thomas Hutchinson to Dr. James Lloyd of Boston, concerning land owned by Hutchinson's sister, Grizell Sanford, and enclosing his and his sister's powers of attorney. Franklin and Adams had opened the letter because they believed it unwise to permit any communication from Hutchinson to go to America without examination, but left it up to the Council to decide what to do in the matter. No record of any action by the Council has 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/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/