BIB_ID
268474
Accession number
MA 554.8
Creator
Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803.
Display Date
[1773] June 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
The year of writing appears to be written as 1772 but given the context of the text, it is more likely it is 1773; a penciled notation to the right of the date, in an unknown hand, says 1773.
The year of writing appears to be written as 1772 but given the context of the text, it is more likely it is 1773; a penciled notation to the right of the date, in an unknown hand, says 1773.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in 1892.
Summary
Enclosing copies of letters written by Thomas Hutchinson, Andrew Oliver and Charles Paxton and informing him that the originals have been "Laid before the House of Representatives - The House have already resolved by a majority of 105(?) out of 106 members that the Design & tendency of them is to subvert the Constitution and introduce arbitrary Power into the provinces. They are now in the hands of a Committee to consider them further & report what is [illegible] proper to be done. I think there is now a full Discovery of a Combination of persons who have been the principal movers, in all the Disturbance & misery & bloodshed which has befallen this unhappy Country."
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