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To John Adams from Abraham Fuller, 12 February 1789

From Abraham Fuller

Newton Feby 12th. 1789

Hond Sir

Since I made the last return of the number of Polls in the Commonwealth, to your Honr, I find a Mistake of 45 Polls, being Short of the number in the County of York, they being Added to the County of York makes the number 4944; than the whole number in the Commonwealth is 90513—1

Your Honr. most Obedient & / Huml. Servant

A Fuller

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “Hon’ John Adams Esqr.”

1. Abraham Fuller (1720–1794) represented Newton in the Mass. General Court from 1764 to 1782 (John A. Schutz, Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691–1780: A Biographical Dictionary, Boston, 1997). Fuller wrote to JA on 6 Feb. 1789 (Adams Papers) explaining that there was an error in the polling data printed in Fleet’s Pocket Almanack description begins Fleet’s Register, and Pocket Almanack, Boston, 1779–1800; 22 vols. description ends 1789, namely, that York Co., Mass., (now Maine) had 4,856 polls, and the total for the commonwealth was 94,579 (p. 60).

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    “To John Adams from Abraham Fuller, 12 February 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-19-02-0271. [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. 382.]