record number: 271010

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Dates:

24 Aug. 1828

Original paper slip text:24 Aug. 1828.

Author's location:

Hallowell, ME

Original paper slip text:Hallowell [Maine]

Author:

Benjamin Vaughan

Original paper slip text:Benjamin Vaughan

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Recipient:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:to JQA, with enclosures; two packets (25 Feb.–1 Dec. 1782) re U.S. northeast boundary and peace negotiations of 1782–1783, including correspondence of Vaughan with Earl of Shelburne.

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Length:

125 p. (copies, partly in hand of CFA; partly in hand of another copyist)

Notes:

Archival Notes:
Packet No. 1 "an account of the cause and extent of the National sentiments in G. Britain in favor of a reconciliation with the U. States." A fragment marked "A." Also some documents respecting the fisheries.
Packet No. 2 contains, first, the copy of a corrected letter from September 1795; also "some remarks &c respecting [the] negotiations of 1782." Also "a small packet of papers" which includes 1 re "the mode of conducting the search after documents [on the Boundary] question"; 2 "the sentiments of Messrs Vergennes and Turgot respecting the course to be pursued by France and Spain" in the American Revolution; 3 "the tone used by the leader in ... revolutionary France in 1792" when Vergennes' Amer. policy was under discussion; 4 "a communication" from JA to Vaughan, 13 Jan. 1783 to be transmitted to Lansdowne. Also a paper re Judge Dana. See Vaughan to JA letters, scattered from this date to 3 May 1830. Entered by ER 12/07/2015

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 256

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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