Adams Papers

To John Adams from John Eager Howard, 23 January 1789

From John Eager Howard

Annapolis Jany. 23d. 1789

Sir,

I have the honor to enclose a proclamation which will inform you of the result of the late elections in this State. The federal ticket has been carried by a very large Majority.1 Knowing that this circumstance will give you pleasure I have taken the earliest opportunity of communicating it— One circumstance I will add that in the County which bears your name out of 1164 taken there was not one for the antifederal ticket—

I am / Yr Most Obedt Servt

J.E. Howard

Dupl (private owner, 2016); notation by JA: “much distinguished as an / Officer of the army—particularly in / the affairs of the Cowpens So. Carolina. / J.A.”

1. Gov. John Eager Howard (1752–1827), of Baltimore, likely enclosed a printed copy of his 21 Jan. proclamation announcing the election of the state’s six members of the House of Representatives and the naming of eight presidential electors. Howard also sent the same letter and enclosure to George Washington, highlighting Washington County’s 1,164 votes (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 ; 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, and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1987– . description ends , 1:252–253).

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    To John Adams from John Eager Howard, 23 January 1789
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    Howard, John Eager
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    Adams, John
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    23 January 1789

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    “To John Adams from John Eager Howard, 23 January 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-19-02-0265. [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. 374.]

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