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To John Adams from Isaac Stephens, 18 July 1786

From Isaac Stephens

algir July 18th. 17861

Sir

I take the Liberty of Directing a Letter to your Honour in order to Convey My Letters to Boston and Will be much obliged to you to forword them & further for gods Sake and the Love of Man to assist Us in this Sad State of Slavery allthough the Sum Is Large But we Cannot help that it is Despreat To be Under the Situation of a Slave as We are the property of the King as Much as his horse Sir if Mr Lamb has Related the Matter as he Told the King he Would be hear in four months and this King Never puts any Confidence in a Nation that Deceves him once I hope Mr Lamb will be hear Within the time for the King has given out that word—

our Rademption Nothing Conserrns the peace from Your most obedent and humble Servent

Isaac Stephens

RC (Adams Papers description begins Manuscripts and other materials, 1639–1889, in the Adams Manuscript Trust collection given to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1956 and enlarged by a few additions of family papers since then. Citations in the present edition are simply by date of the original document if the original is in the main chronological series of the Papers and therefore readily found in the microfilm edition of the Adams Papers (APM). description ends ); addressed: “To / John adams Esqr / the american / Embassador / London”; internal address: “Mr Adams”; endorsed: “Captain Isaac Stephens / 18 July. / recd 28. Ansd 29. Septr. 1786.”

1. This letter presumably was accompanied by an 18 July note from Zaccheus Coffin, not found, and perhaps by a 25 July letter from Richard O’Bryen, below. For JA’s replies to all three men on 29 Sept., see his letters to O’Bryen and Stephens of that date, and notes, both below.

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    “To John Adams from Isaac Stephens, 18 July 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-18-02-0217. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 18, December 1785–January 1787, ed. Gregg L. Lint, Sara Martin, C. James Taylor, Sara Georgini, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, Amanda M. Norton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, p. 397.]

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