Adams Papers

From John Ewing to John Adams, 18 June 1792

From John Ewing

Philada. 18 June 1792

Honourable Sr.

Permit me to introduce to your Notice Mr. Samuel Miller the Son of a much esteemed Clergyman, late of Dover in the Delaware State, and formerly known to you, as I understand, there were some Connections between your Families. He has undertaken a Tour to Boston to learn the political and ecclesiastical State of your Country, before he settles himself in a Pastoral Relation to any Church.1 He is a young Gentleman of a liberal Education, an amiable moral & religious Character, modest Deportment, & promising Abilities as a Preacher. I need say no more, to secure to him, from the V. President of the united States of America, the Attention, which his more important Business will allow.

I am with the greatest Regard for your public & private Character / honble. Sr. / your most obedt. / & very humble Servt.

John Ewing

RC (MHi:Adams-Hull Coll.); addressed: “His Excellency / John Adams Esqr. / V. President of the United States of America / now at / Boston”; internal address: “Honble. John Adams / V. President of the U. S. of America”; endorsed: “Dr Ewing. June 18. / 1792”; notation by Ewing: “per favr. of / Mr. Miller.”

1. Ewing (1732–1802), Princeton 1754, presided over the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, where JA frequently attended services. Rev. Samuel Miller (1769–1850), University of Pennsylvania 1789, became a professor of ecclesiastical history at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1813. His father, Rev. John Miller (1722–1791), originally of Boston, was minister of the united Presbyterian churches of Dover and Duck Creek Crossroads (now Smyrna), Del., from 1749 until his death (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 , 10:261, 290, 321; Madison, Papers, Retirement Series description begins The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series, ed. David B. Mattern and others, Charlottesville, Va., 2009– . description ends , 2:460; 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 , 13:346; Samuel Miller, The Life of Samuel Miller, 2 vols., Phila., 1869, 1:16; Philadelphia American Daily Advertiser, 12 Aug. 1791).

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    From John Ewing to John Adams, 18 June 1792
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    “From John Ewing to John Adams, 18 June 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0090. [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. 128.]

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