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John Adams

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John Adams

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Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 18:00 (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
Partly-printed DS, one page both sides, 8 x 6.5, May 31, 1770. Legal document in which the Sheriff of Suffolk County is ordered to take John Manley into custody for owing a merchant 160 pounds. Adams has added a lengthy statement at the bottom of the front continuing on the reverse, which reads, in part: “And the said John comes and defends…that the Plaintiff ought not to have did maintain…aforesaid against the said John, because he saith that as to the sum of one hundred and Fifty Pounds Sixteen Shillings and ten Pence half penny in the Declaration and current amend to the same mentioned part of the said sum of one hundred and Fifty Pounds Sixteen Shillings and ten Pence half penny the said John saith he never promised the Plaintiff permission…as he has declared and thereof…John Adams and the Plaintiff likewise.” Adam’s statement continues to the bottom of the page, with the text getting progressively smaller as space dictates. An endorsement along the right edge states Manley was brought into custody. Two vertical folds, scattered toning and soiling, a bit heavier along folds and edges, and intersecting ink cancellations through portions of Adams’s statement, otherwise very good condition.