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Dates:

( conjectural ) post

9 Mar. 1786

Original paper slip text:[post 9 March 1786]

Author:

unknown

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Recipient:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:to JA?

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Title:

Includes epitaph on

John Jebb

Original paper slip text:Dr. [John] Jebb

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[died 2 March 1786; see DNB, 29:258]; and verse "On

Benjamin Franklin

Original paper slip text:Dr. Franklin's

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making a present of his bust to

Edward Newenham

Original paper slip text:Sir Edward Newenham

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Length:

4 p.

Notes:

See also AA to JQA, 27 Sept. 1786 (CDF); printed in AA, Letters, 1848, 305–309 (reference to Dr. Jebb on p. 306).
Redated from [post 2 March 1786], the date of Jebb's death, based on Jebb's funeral date of 9 March 1786. --GLL and SEG, 2/10/2014

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 367

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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