record number: 010126

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Dates:

( conjectural )

1756

Original paper slip text:[1756?]

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA.

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Title:

Copy of "A Letter to a Bishop" [probably

Duncan Forbes

Original paper slip text:Duncan Forbes, 1685–1747

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, A Letter to a Bishop concerning Some Important Discoveries in Philosophy and Theology, 1732]

Length:

5 p.

Document Type:

JA—Literary Exercises, Translations &c.

Notes:

Refuting the author [John Hutchinson, 1674–1737] of a work "very lately published" [1732] as A Treatise of Power Essential and Mechanical, as well as previous works, questioning the validity of the Hebrew scriptures.
[This is assumed to have no relation to a letter of the Bishop of Quebec, 8 Sept. 1755, in the Boston Evening Post (see JA, Works, 2:11).]
*Bishop George Horn

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 187

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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