Adams Papers

To John Adams from Jeremy Belknap, 30 May 1789

From Jeremy Belknap

Boston May 30 1789

Sir,

I should not have thought of troubling you with the inclosed sermon,1 if it had not been suggested to me by a friend who heard it that it seemed to be formed on the principles which were advanced in your defence of the American Constitutions & to recommend such Checks and Balances in Ecclesiastical as you had thought necessary in civil Government. If in this view of it, or any other it may be acceptable I shall think myself honoured, & am / Sir / with the greatest respect / Your very humble Servant

Jeremy Belknap.

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The Hon Dr Adams.”

1. Belknap sent a copy of his homily A Sermon, Preached at the Installation of the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, A.M.: To the Pastoral Care of the Church and Congregation in Charlestown, on the 30th of April, 1789, Boston, 1789, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, 1903–1959; 14 vols.; rev. edn., www.readex.com. description ends No. 21673.

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    To John Adams from Jeremy Belknap, 30 May 1789
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    Belknap, Jeremy
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    Adams, John
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    30 May 1789

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    “To John Adams from Jeremy Belknap, 30 May 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-19-02-0340. [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. 484.]

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