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Dates:

17 June 1768

Original paper slip text:17 June 1768.

Author's location:

Boston, MA

Original paper slip text:Boston

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA.

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Title:

Instructions of the

Town of Boston

Original paper slip text:Town of Boston

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to their Representative in the

Massachusetts General Court

Original paper slip text:Mass. General Court

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Length:

4 p.

Document Type:

JA—Boston, Town of

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Notes:

MS: Boston Town Records, vol. 5, no pagination [p. 102–105]
JA stated his authorship in Diary and Autobiography, 3:291
N.B. This town meeting resulted from seizure of Hancock's sloop Liberty. See CFA's notes. See also JA Chronology. And see esp. the case of Sewall v. Hancock in JA, Legal Papers. LHB, 11 March 1957
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Boston Public Library

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Printed :

JA Works

Original paper slip text:Printed: JA, Works, 3:501-504

Full citation:

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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, (from Boston Gazette on Gov. Hutchinson?)
Boston Record Commissioners, 16th Rpt., p. 257–259
Hutchinson, Mass. Bay, ed. Mayo, 3:354–356 (Appendix K)

Boston Gazette

Original paper slip text:Boston Gazette

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Boston Gazette

see issue of 20 June 1768 (according to D/JA 3:291), p. 2, col. 2-3

Boston Evening Post

Original paper slip text:Boston Evening Post

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Boston Evening Post

20 June 1768 p. 2-3.

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