record number: 053013

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Dates:

21 Sep. 1787

Original paper slip text:21 Sept. 1787.

Author's location:

St. Johns

Original paper slip text:St. Johns

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Author:

Jonathan Sewall

Original paper slip text:Jonathan Sewall

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Recipient:

Joseph Lee

Original paper slip text:to Judge Joseph Lee (of Cambridge)

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Length:

15 p. (transcript)

Notes:

Original is in MHi: Lee Family Papers (fragment only).
The portion relating to JA is printed in JA, Works, 1:56, note. Also in editorial note on JA to AA, 9 July 1774.
Note by Ford at head: "Jany 1822," probably the date when JQA (among whose Letters Received. 1821–1822, the transcript was filed) obtained it. But see memorandum by Benjamin Waterhouse with the original, on how his wife (Louisa Lee Waterhouse) found the letter. Waterhouse probably sent or lent the letter to JQA, 9 May 1827; see Waterhouse to JQA of that date (CDF).

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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