Adams Papers

From Peter Whitney Sr. to John Adams, 20 May 1794

From Peter Whitney Sr.

Northborough, May, 20th, 1794—

Sir

I have taken the liberty of dedicating a history of the County of Worcester to You.

You will please to accept a Volume of the work.1

Though not personally known to Your honor, you will do me the favor to believe that I have a Sincere respect for, & high esteem of, You; & permit me to add, that I am, / Dear Sir, Your most obedient / & most humble Servt.

Peter Whitney

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “Honable. / Vice-President Adams.”

1. Rev. Peter Whitney Sr. (1744–1816), Harvard 1762, minister of the First Congregational Church of Northborough, Mass., sent a presentation copy of his History of the County of Worcester, Worcester, Mass., 1793, now in JA’s library at MB. He dedicated the work to JA (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 , 10:190).

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    From Peter Whitney Sr. to John Adams, 20 May 1794
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    “From Peter Whitney Sr. to John Adams, 20 May 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0213. [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. 290.]