BIB_ID
268476
Accession number
MA 552.17
Creator
Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803.
Display Date
1775 Oct. 23.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Elbridge Gerry Esq. / at / Watertown."
Docketed.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Watermark: two stacked circles with devices inside them and a hanging bell below.
Docketed.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Watermark: two stacked circles with devices inside them and a hanging bell below.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of his last letter; saying that he hopes Gerry "will continue to write to [him] by every opportunity"; reporting that "Peyton Randolph[,] one of the Virginia Delegates," has died of "an Apoplectic Fit."
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