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Dates:

18 Sep. 1769

Original paper slip text:18 Sept. 1769

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Title:

Legal document with affadavit on recto and verso, each signed by

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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; also affadavit on verso signed by

Samuel Quincy

Original paper slip text:S. Quincy

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Length:

DS. 2 p.

Document Type:

JA—Legal Papers

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Notes:

Added to EIA - GKF 1/27/23
Offered for sale by Freeman's for $1,500 in Sept. 2012 - GKF 1/27/23
Sold, Parke-Bernet Gall., N.Y. (H.M. Leland et al. Sale), Sale No. 1352, 27 May 1952, lot 1, $40.00
Offered for sale, Charles Hamilton Autographs, N.Y. (Raymond E. Burdick Sale), Auction No. 41, 23 April 1970, Lot 1.
1 ADAMS, JOHN. President. Early Autograph Endorsement Signed, three lines, closely penned in bottom margin of portion of a partly printed D.S. of Ezek. Goldthwaite, legal clerk, oblong narrow 8vo. Boston, September 18, 1769. Writ of attachment, against which Adams has penned a denial as counsel for the defendant: "And the said Benjamin comes & defends & deserving Liberty of pleading anew at the Superior Court, says the writing declar'd is not his deed, John Adams." Several small marginal tears (passing through two words of Adams' writing) and slightly ink-smudged (affecting the "a" of Adams' signature), but otherwise in very satisfactory condition. Although the document is incomplete, Adams' endorsement is complete in itself. (130.00)

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