From John Adams to Isaac H. Jackson, 21 August 1818
Quincy Aug. 21. ‘18
Sir
I have no Remembrance of the “Address to a Provincial Bashans”
I should conjecture that Governor Bernard was meant by the Bashans.
The Author I know not. It is possible it might be Doctor Benjamin Church. It might be from One of Several Other Poets of that Age. But it never Attracted the Attention / of your humble Servant
John Adams
OClWHi.