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To John Adams from John Brown Cutting, 3 April 1789

From John Brown Cutting

Charlestown. (S. C.) April 3. 1789

My Dear Sir,

This letter will be presented to you by the Hon. William Smith Esquire one of the representaives in Congress from the State of South Carolina—whom I beg leave to introduce to you as a friend and a fellow citizen whose talents, integrity, fortune and connexions are respectable in the eyes of his constituents in the district which he represents, and whose family since the earliest settlement of this country have been endeared to and honor’d by its most distinguish’d inhabitants.1

He is son-in-law of your old acquaintance Mr Izard to whom as well as to Mr Smith I am indebted for much hospitality and many civilities in Charlestown during a winter in which I have been engaged in advocating the claims of the foreign creditors of the state— a difficult, unpleasant and laborious piece of business.

Soon after your departure from England I was applied to by a number of these creditors—who understood I had been previously spoken to on the same subject by others in Holland and in France. I listen’d to their complaints and have been toiling for their relief. My assiduity has not been wholly fruitless. But to compleat the good effects of the negotiation I am indispensably obliged to embark again for Europe without delay.

Pray accept my cordial congratulations on an appointment that confers perhaps less honor upon your name than it receives dignity from it. Mrs Adams with yourself ever live / in the grateful remembrance / of your respectful and affectionate

John B. Cutting

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “His Excellency John Adams Esquire.”

1. Federalist, lawyer, and pamphleteer William Loughton Smith (1758–1812), of Charleston, S.C., was a distant cousin of AA’s. He represented South Carolina in the House from 1789 to 1797, then served as the U.S. minister plenipotentiary to Portugal and Spain until 1801 (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 1:69; Biog. Dir. Cong. description begins Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–2005, Washington, D.C., 2005; rev. edn., bioguide.congress.gov. description ends ).

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    To John Adams from John Brown Cutting, 3 April 1789
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    “To John Adams from John Brown Cutting, 3 April 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-19-02-0286. [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, pp. 407–408.]

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