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Samuel Adams

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Samuel Adams

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Auction Date:2011 Aug 10 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
Manuscript DS, one page both sides, 7.75 x 12.5, February 29, 1796. In part: “The Legislature of the Commonwealth being desirous to bring to an end, those litigations respecting Land titles in the County of Lincoln, which have for a long time embarrassed and retarded the settlement and cultivation of that part of the Commonwealth…The Power of the Government in regard to the property of individuals is reasonably limited by our free & happy Constitution. By affidavits now before the Supreme Executive, copies of which are enclosed, it appears that certain persons within the said County where you are Magistrates have, either from the want of proper information, or from the instigation of wicked & designing men, in an unwarrantable & violent manner, interrupted the progress of this business by assaulting the persons employed by the Government in running the lines between the land of this Commonwealth & divers Citizens thereof…It is with the advice of the Council that I address you on this important subject. The Supreme Executive cannot admit the idea that the execution of the Laws has been for a moment restrained by fear; for should your candid and friendly explanation, and your firm determination to carry the laws into execution…prove insufficient to produce actual submission, such part of the force of the Commonwealth as shall be necessary must be exerted to suppress every opposition to the Government.” In fine condition, with a couple light vertical wrinkles through portion of signature. Accompanied by two testimonies written in another hand, both signed by Secretary John Avery. All documents are housed in a red half-morocco clamshell box.

Unrest and lawlessness that was rooted in the Whiskey Rebellion—the suppression of which was endorsed by Adams—continued to fester in Massachusetts in 1796 via a series of land disputes. When a land surveyor, “in an unwarrantable & violent manner,” was attacked while performing his duties, Adams stepped in the hope of restoring order in the County of Lincoln [now situated in the state of Maine], with the legislature “being desirous to bring to an end, those litigations respecting Land titles in the County of Lincoln.” Despite ill-health and hand tremors [evident in his signature] Adams was prompted to act after the local magistrates had neglected to address the issue, with the accompanying affidavits each relating to the attack. An important archive concerning lawlessness in Massachusetts.
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