1From John Adams to Peter Chardon, January 1761 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 1:196–197 . On Chardon (d. 1766) , see JA ’s admiring characterization in same, p. 47 , and note at p. 48 . Printed : ( JA,