BIB_ID
268478
Accession number
MA 552.18
Creator
Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803.
Display Date
1785 Dec. 17.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
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 a partial docket on the verso of the second leaf.
With a partial docket on the verso of the second leaf.
Summary
Writing that it "gave [him] much pleasure to find that [Lee's] Countrymen had again honoured [him] with their Confidence in Congress"; appealing to him for help in obtaining pay for Captain [Peter] Landais; mentioning "Prize Money" received by Captain [John] Paul Jones; asking him to "transmit ... the Names of the present Members of Congress & the States they severally represent."
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