Adams-Johnson-Lynch family papers, 1800-1903.

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Adams-Johnson-Lynch family papers, 1800-1903.

1800-1903

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34181179

Family correspondence of the interrelated Adams, Johnson, and Lynch families, the bulk of which are approximately twenty letters from Abigail Louisa Smith (Adams) Johnson of Utica, N.Y. to her sister, Susanna Boylston (Adams) Clark (later Treadway) of Quincy, Mass., 1812-1836; and a long run of letters from Elizabeth Coombs Adams of Quincy to her cousin, Sarah Adams (Johnson) Lynch, the daughter of Abigail Johnson, of Utica, 1876-1900. The collection also includes three letters from Abigail Adams to her son, Thomas Boylston Adams, and daughter-in-law, Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams; one letter from John Quincy Adams to his son Thomas Boylston Adams and a poem by J.Q. Adams entitled, "Phyllis to Demophoon," written around 1832. There are also two letters from Alexander B. Johnson and one from William S. Smith.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Adams family (Quincy, Mass.)

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Johnson, A. B. (Alexander Bryan), 1786-1867

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Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818

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Johnson, Abigail Louisa Adams, 1798-1836

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Adams, Louisa Catherine, 1775-1852

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Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

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Adams, Thomas Boylston, 1772-1832

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Thomas Boylston Adams (1772-1832), one of the sons of U.S. president John Adams, was a representative to the Massachusetts legislature from 1809 to 1811 and served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. From the guide to the Thomas Boylston Adams journal, 1798, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Treadway, Susanna Boylston Adams Clark, 1796-1846

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Lynch, Sarah Adams Johnson, 1828-1907.

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Johnson family.

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Smith, William Stephens, 1755-1816

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William Stephens Smith (b. November 8, 1755, Suffolk County, NY–d. June 10, 1816, Lebanon, NY) was a United States Representative from New York. He married Abigail "Nabby" Adams, the daughter of President John Adams, and was a brother-in-law of President John Quincy Adams. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1774. He served in the Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to general John Sullivan in 1776. Smith fought in the Battle of Long Island, was wounded...

Lynch family.

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Adams, Elizabeth Coombs, 1808-1903.

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