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Samuel Adams

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Samuel Adams

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Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 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
American statesman (1722–1803) and signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts who was one of the organizers of the Boston Tea Party and one of his state’s most ardent supporters of the patriotic cause. Manuscript DS, signed “S. Adams Presidt,” one page, 7.25 x 4.5, February 26, 1785. Document concerning a motion in the state congress to be sent to the Massachusetts representatives in the Continental Congress. In full: “Read & accepted with a further Amendment at C & thereupon Ordered that the Secretary be directed to make out a fair & attested Copy of the foregoing Instructions and forward them to the Delegates from this Commonwealth in Congress.” Adams signs at the conclusion as president of the Massachusetts senate, and also making a couple of handwritten corrections to the text. In very good condition, with a couple professional repairs on reverse to small tears or separations, scattered light toning, intersecting folds, and side and bottom edges on reverse lined with new paper. Document is housed in a folio-sized blue half-morocco and cloth clamshell case, with spine gilt.