1To John Adams from Ebenezer Storer, 10 March 1789 (Adams Papers)
I had yesterday the honour to go to Braintree on purpose to pay my respects to you on the commencement of the new Federal Government, & to assure you of my partaking in the general Joy on the choice of the President & Vice President of the united States.— Had I been so happy as to have seen you, I should have taken the liberty, after congratulating you on this pleasing event, to have made an...