ADAMS, SAMUEL, Signer (Massachusetts) . Letter signed ("Saml. Adams"), TO ELBRIDGE GERRY, Boston, 17 December 1785. One page, 4to. ONE SIGNER TO ANOTHER, ABOUT TO RELINQUISH HIS INDEPENDENCE A warm, punning letter to a fellow Massachusetts patriot: "Doctor Holten told me a fortnight ago that he supposed you was then on the road homeward. How difficult it is for us to enter into the favorite Designs of each other. The Doctor little thought you fast bound by the silken Cord [engaged to be married]. I am glad you have at length open'd your Eyes and are hastening to that State which is design'd to promote the greatest Happiness in Life....If you can possibly find Leisure at this engaging Period will you be so kind as to advise my friend Capt. Landars who is going to New York to sollicit [ sic ] further allowance on his account. I inform'd you of the Particulars in a Letter some Time ago. If you will permit him, he will refresh your Memory. I will not trespass on your Time at present any further than to express the sincerest Wish for your happiness...." On 12 January 1786 Gerry married the daughter of a New York merchant, Ann Thompson, and retired from business, devoting himself to politics thereafter. Adams and the younger Gerry had met in the meeting of the Boston Committee of Correspondence; it proved a lifelong friendship.
ADAMS, SAMUEL, Signer (Massachusetts) . Letter signed ("Saml. Adams"), TO ELBRIDGE GERRY, Boston, 17 December 1785. One page, 4to. ONE SIGNER TO ANOTHER, ABOUT TO RELINQUISH HIS INDEPENDENCE A warm, punning letter to a fellow Massachusetts patriot: "Doctor Holten told me a fortnight ago that he supposed you was then on the road homeward. How difficult it is for us to enter into the favorite Designs of each other. The Doctor little thought you fast bound by the silken Cord [engaged to be married]. I am glad you have at length open'd your Eyes and are hastening to that State which is design'd to promote the greatest Happiness in Life....If you can possibly find Leisure at this engaging Period will you be so kind as to advise my friend Capt. Landars who is going to New York to sollicit [ sic ] further allowance on his account. I inform'd you of the Particulars in a Letter some Time ago. If you will permit him, he will refresh your Memory. I will not trespass on your Time at present any further than to express the sincerest Wish for your happiness...." On 12 January 1786 Gerry married the daughter of a New York merchant, Ann Thompson, and retired from business, devoting himself to politics thereafter. Adams and the younger Gerry had met in the meeting of the Boston Committee of Correspondence; it proved a lifelong friendship.
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