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John Adams signs three times as a colonial lawyer
John Adams Autograph Document Signed Thrice. One page, 8" x
12", Suffolk County, Massachusetts, November 16, 1773. Adams' three
signatures and seven hand-written lines of text occur on the verso
of a partly-printed writ of attachment. The heading of the document
reads, "George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
France and Ireland, KING" and is addressed to the county
sheriff to seize "the Value of Fifty Pounds" from William
Davis, a merchant from Boston, to be paid to Benjamin Tufts of
Medford. (Tufts had taken Davis to court for refusing to pay for
the 64,200 bricks sold to him.) A receipt of payments is affixed by
wax to the recto of the writ. The document has smoothed folds with
minor staining. The document has completely separated along the
central horizontal fold.The document is signed twice on the verso by Francis Dana, who later served as a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress from 1777-1778 and again in 1784 (he signed the Articles of Confederation in 1778). S. Greenleaf, sheriff of Suffolk County, has also signed.
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2014 April 3 Historical Manuscripts Signature Auction - New York #6113 (go to Auction Home page)
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