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The Writings of Samuel Adams— Volume 2
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To John Adams.1
[MS., Adams Papers, Quincy, Mass.; a facsimile is in Works of John Adams, vol. ii., p. 310.]
MY DEAR SIR
If you have had Leisure to commit your Thoughts to writing agreable to my request I shall be obligd if you will send them by the Bearer. The Govr says the House have incautiously applied a rule of the Common Law2 (see the 4th Coll. of his Speech). The Assertion is mine, upon your Authority as I thought. If it be vindicable, pray give me your Aid in that as briefly as you please. I am sorry to trouble you at a time when I know you must be much engagd but to tell you a Secret, if there be a Lawyer in the house in Major Hawleys Absence, there is no one whom I incline to confide in.
Monday Evg
1 Presumably written on February 22 or March I, 1773. Cf. W. V. Wells, Life of Samuel Adams, vol. ii., p. 41. 2 Speech of February 16, 1773. Massachusetts State Papers, p. 374. See ibid., p. 387.
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Chicago:
Samuel Adams, "To John Adams.1," The Writings of Samuel Adams— Volume 2 in The Writings of Samuel Adams—Volume 2 Original Sources, accessed July 1, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LKHTDEYR45DXJQT.
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Adams, Samuel. "To John Adams.1." The Writings of Samuel Adams— Volume 2, in The Writings of Samuel Adams—Volume 2, Original Sources. 1 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LKHTDEYR45DXJQT.
Harvard:
Adams, S, 'To John Adams.1' in The Writings of Samuel Adams— Volume 2. cited in , The Writings of Samuel Adams—Volume 2. Original Sources, retrieved 1 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LKHTDEYR45DXJQT.
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