Your very circumstantial letter I received last week and am very much delighted to find you are enjoying yourself so highly among friends from whom you have been so long separated; I am afraid you will think I have taken great liberties when I tell you that I have opened two letters which have arrived since you left us, one from John Smith respecting the estate, whom Mr Johnson has written to...
The will of my honoured & lamented Grandfather is received, & I beg you, most respectfully, to accept my thanks for transmitting me this mournful testimonial of his paternal affection. MHi : Adams Papers.
We Alexander B Johnson and Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson his wife have received of John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy Executors of the last Will of John Adams late of Quincy in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, deceased, the sum of three thousand dollars, in payment of the devise bequeathed to me the said Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson by the said Will excepting my portion...
According to your request Mr J has drawn off an account of your property; he says you will see exactly by this what you have, how much you owe him, the whole amount of your property and the income proceeding from it. We are all well and unite in love to you & Aunt C, I hope you have received $75 by Mr Simonson; and my letters by Dr Pomeroy your affectionate daughter NIC .