Adams Papers Digital Edition

Adams Family Correspondence, volume 5

John Thaxter to Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams to Royall Tyler
John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 June 1783 JA JQA John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 June 1783 Adams, John Adams, John Quincy
John Adams to John Quincy Adams
My dear Son Paris June 12th. 1783

The Bearer of this Letter, Eliphalet Fitch Esqr., a Gentleman of large Fortune and high in office in Jamaica, is a Grandson of Dr. Boylston and consequently your Relation.1

You will wait upon him and his Lady, and do yourself the honor to shew them all the Attention and Respect in your Power, while they stay at the Hague.

Your affectionate Father John Adams

LbC in John Thaxter's hand (Adams Papers).

1.

Eliphalet Fitch was receiver general and a judge of the supreme court of Jamaica. He was born in Boston in 1740, the son of Benjamin Fitch and Jerusha Boylston, the daughter of Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, who introduced innoculation for smallpox into America. Dr. Zabdiel Boylston was the brother of JA's grandfather, Peter Boylston; thus Fitch and JA were second cousins. See JA to C. W. F. Dumas, 12 June (Adams Papers); Sibley's Harvard Graduates , 7:335–336; DAB (Zabdiel Boylston).