Samuel Adams papers

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id: 5476
origination: Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803
date statement: 1760-1803
key date: 1760
identifier (local_mss): 20
org unit: Manuscripts and Archives Division
call number: MssCol 20
b-number: b12428746
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component layout: Berg Layout
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created: 2013-04-01 15:05:20 UTC
updated: 2026-08-16 02:15:21 UTC
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unittitle: {"value"=>"Samuel Adams papers"}

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abstract: {"value"=>"Samuel Adams (1722-1803) was an American revolutionary and post-revolutionary era political leader. Adams served as lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts from 1789 to 1793, and was governor from 1794 to 1797. The Adams papers contain letters to Adams and drafts of letters by him, chiefly on public affairs; as well as manuscripts of addresses, petitions, committee minutes, resolutions, and other documents. Much of Adams’ correspondence is with notable figures of the period in America and Europe including John Adams, Samuel Cooper, Christopher Gadsden, Horatio Gates, Elbridge Gerry, Joseph Hawley, Thomas Jefferson, Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, James Lovell, Thomas Paine, and James Warren. There are also letters (1778-1781) to Adams’ wife, Elizabeth Wells Adams, on family matters, as well as letters neither to nor from Adams."}
prefercite: {"value"=>"<p>Samuel Adams papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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bioghist: {"value"=>"<p>Samuel Adams (1722-1803) was an American revolutionary and post-revolutionary era political leader. Adams served as lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts from 1789 to 1793, and was governor from 1794 to 1797.</p>"}
custodhist: {"value"=>"<p>Purchased by the Lenox Library from the Estate of George Bancroft in 1893.</p>"}
scopecontent: {"value"=>"<p>The Adams papers contain letters to Adams and drafts of letters by him, chiefly on public affairs; as well as manuscripts of addresses, petitions, committee minutes, resolutions, and other documents. Much of Adams’ correspondence is with notable figures of the period in America and Europe including John Adams, Samuel Cooper, Christopher Gadsden, Horatio Gates, Elbridge Gerry, Joseph Hawley, Thomas Jefferson, Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, James Lovell, Thomas Paine, and James Warren. There are also letters (1778-1781) to Adams’ wife, Elizabeth Wells Adams, on family matters, as well as letters neither to nor from Adams.</p>"}
acqinfo: {"value"=>"<p>Lenox Library</p>"}
processinfo: {"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Archives Unit</span>, <span class=\"date\">2016</span></p>"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">Boston Committee of Correspondence records. .</span>"}
note: {"type"=>"sponsor", "value"=>"Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation."}
sponsor: {"value"=>"Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky\n Foundation."}
dsc_type: combined
date_start: 1760
keydate: 1760
date_end: 1803
date_inclusive_start: 1760
date_inclusive_end: 1803
extent_statement: 2.25 linear feet (7 boxes, 5 oversized folders)

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