Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ADS, signed in the text, “John Adams,” one page, 6 x 4, June 18, 1764. Financial document reads in full: “Braintree June 18, 1764. For value rec’d I promise to pay John Adams or his order One Pound Three Shillings and Eighteen Pence of lawful money on demand with lawful interest therefore till paid. Witness my hand.” Signed at the conclusion by Matthew Pratt and John Vonton. Float-matted and framed with an engraved portrait, to an overall size of 12 x 18.5. In very good condition, with small splits along intersecting folds, one fold passing through a single letter of signature, and scattered toning and edge wear.
At the time he signed this document, the future second president was a young attorney living in Braintree, about 14 miles south of Boston. A few weeks earlier, he had traveled to nearby Boston to take advantage of an inoculation program designed to ward off a smallpox epidemic ravishing the colonies—a preventative measure that left him confined to bed for three weeks. Four months later after signing this document, Adams had fully recovered and married Abigail Smith, the future first lady.
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