Adams Papers

From Richard Cranch to John Adams, 10 February 1795

From Richard Cranch

Quincy Feby: 10th: 1795.

Dear Brother

The enclosed Letter to the Honble: Mr. Brown a Senator from Kentucky, I would ask the favr. of you to deliver to him. It is about the late Mr. Thos. Perkins’s affairs, who died at Kentucky. I have desired Mr Brown to inform me (when he has Leisure for it) what is become of the Lands that were located to Mr Perkins, and whether or not there is any Estate of his remaining for his Heirs. I am in some degree interested, as I supply’d him to some amount when he first went to Kentucky, for which he engaged to interest me in a part of the Lands that should be located to him. The Honble: Harry Innes Esqr. (then Attorney Genl. of the District of Kentucky) informed me, by Letter of March 27th. 1787, that Administration on Mr. Perkins’s Estate had been granted to him.1 If you should chance to have any oportunity of helping forward this matter by putting it into such a train as might produce the desir’d Information, I should thank you for attending to it.

I am, with all the Sentiments of Affection and Esteem that moral and intellectual Worth demand, your obliged Brother.

Richard Cranch.

P: S. Your Mother and Mrs. Adams, with the rest of our Connections are well. Mrs. Adams has recd Letters from your Sons in Holland of the 13th: of Decr., but I have not seen them.2 Your Sons were well, and Holland not taken.

RC (NAll:Cranch-Greenleaf Papers).

1. The enclosure has not been found. John Brown (1757–1837), of Staunton, Va., represented Kentucky in the Senate from 1792 to 1805. Lawyer Thomas Perkins, originally of Bridgewater, Mass., Harvard 1779, was an Adams family friend who relocated to Kentucky and died suddenly in 1786. Kentucky politician Harry Innes (1753–1816) had served as attorney general of the district since 1785 (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 ; AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 4:309; Washington, Papers, Presidential Series description begins The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series, ed. W. W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Jack D. Warren, Mark A. Mastromarino, Robert F. Haggard, Christine S. Patrick, John C. Pinheiro, David R. Hoth, Jennifer Stertzer and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1987– . description ends , 1:189).

2. AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 10:302–304.

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    From Richard Cranch to John Adams, 10 February 1795
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    Cranch, Richard
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    Adams, John
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    10 February 1795

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    “From Richard Cranch to John Adams, 10 February 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0274. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 21, March 1791–January 1797, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, p. 371.]

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