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From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 January 1789

To Thomas Jefferson

Braintree near Boston Jany. 2 1789

My dear Friend

Give me leave to introduce to you John Coffin Jones Esqr, an eminent Merchant of Boston and a late Member of the Legislature from that Town.1 His Character both in public and private Life is much respected, and his Intelligence will enable him to give you a much better Account of the general and particular Politicks of this Country than I can. our Fellow Citizens are in the midst of their Elections for the new Government, which have hitherto in general run very well. For my own Part, I have enjoyed a Luxury for the last six Months which I have never before tasted for, at least eight and twenty years. and have looked down upon all you Statesmen, with Sovereign Compassion. The new Government has my best Wishes and most fervent Prayers, for its Success and Prosperity: but whether I shall have any Thing more to do with it, besides praying for it depends on the future Suffrages of Freemen.

I am with an affection that can never / die, your Friend and servant

John Adams

RC (DLC:Jefferson Papers); internal address: “His Excellency Thomas Jefferson”; endorsed: “Adams John.”

1. Former Continental Army contractor John Coffin Jones (1750–1829), Harvard 1768, was elected to the Mass. house of representatives in 1786 and served as speaker from 1802 to 1804 (vol. 11:330; Sibley’s Harvard Graduates description begins John Langdon Sibley, Clifford K. Shipton, Conrad Edick Wright, Edward W. Hanson, and others, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge and Boston, 1873– . description ends , 17:49, 50, 53, 54).

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    “From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 January 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-19-02-0259. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 19, February 1787–May 1789, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Amanda M. Norton, Neal E. Millikan, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, p. 362.]

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