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Dates:

23 May 1768

Original paper slip text:23 May 1768

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:[JA] "Sui Juris"

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Title:

Letter on the question of bishops in America [printed in

Boston Gazette

Original paper slip text:Boston Gazette

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Length:

1 p.

Document Type:

JA—Newspaper Articles

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Notes:

Opposes establishment of Anglican episcopate in America.
Andrew Eliot to Thomas Hollis, 17 Oct. 1768, MHS Colls., 4th ser., 4 (1858), 434 provides contemporary evidence for JA's authorship, which is reinforced by R.B. Berry's article in NEQ, 31 (1958), 90–99.
See also, on this subject, Boston Chronicle (Mein), 19 Sept. 1768, p. 2, & 19 Dec. 1768, p. 1–3. N.B. Boston Chronicle items above are irrelevant to JA. LCF, 11 April 1958
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Boston Gazette

Original paper slip text:Printed: Boston Gazette, 23 May 1768, p. 1, col. 3

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Boston Gazette

reprinted in London Chronicle 16–19 Nov. 1765

JA Works

Original paper slip text:JA, Works, 3:447

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The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1850–1856
10 vols.

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