From Fisher Ames to John Adams, 23 August 1796

From Fisher Ames

Dedham August 23d. 1796—

Mr Ames would be honor’d & no less aided by the grounds & principles (tho’ even so breifly Stated) of the V. President’s opinion in the case of Hannah Beale vs 1 Beale As the lineal descendent of the V. Presidt’s office, Mr A. has the honor of his law ancestry to support. Even this is scarcely enough to satisfy him that his request is not too bold. If it should be thought so, he will reinforce his apology as well as he can. No eye but Mr A’s own shall See any such communication.

Mr Ames takes the occasion to offer his most respectful regards to Mrs Adams.

RC (PHi:Frank M. Etting Coll.); addressed: “The V. President / of the U. States”; docketed: “Note from Fisher Ames / 23d Aug 1796 to J. Adams”; and by JA: “Fisher Ames.”

1. Blank in MS. This case was the divorce between Hannah Baxter (b. 1730) and Capt. Benjamin Beale Sr. (1702–1793), which was finalized on 1 Sept. 1764 (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 , 11:149; Sprague, Braintree Families description begins Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, comp., Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Mass., 1640–1850, Boston, 1983; repr. CD-ROM, Boston, 2001. description ends ).

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: From Fisher Ames to John Adams, 23 August 1796
Author: Ames, Fisher
Recipient: Adams, John
Date: 23 August 1796

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Cite as: “From Fisher Ames to John Adams, 23 August 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0352. [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. 505.]