Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 2

To James Warren

To John Tudor
111 From Edward Hill, 19 July 1774 Hill, Edward JA From Edward Hill, 19 July 1774 Hill, Edward Adams, John
From Edward Hill
Sir ante 19 July 1774

This may serve to apologize for so ungenteel a piece of Conduct as the carrying away a Sum of Money (£ 13.8—lawful) which I have received in your behalf. Nothing but absolute necessity could have forced me to do it but as I am leaving my friend you will not wonder that I wanted money which could not otherwise be procured. I have stated the matter in a letter I left for my father.

I am with much respect, your most Obed Servt., EDW. Hill1

RC (Adams Papers); addressed: “To John Adams Esqr”; endorsed at the foot of the letter in John Trumbull's hand: “July 19 1774. This Letter was found in Mr. Adams' Office. Pr John Trumbull”; endorsed on verso in JA's hand: “July, 1774.”

1.

Hill was one of JA's law clerks, 1772–1775. For biographical sketch, see JA, Legal Papers , 1:ci. For John Trumbull, see same, 1:cxii. This incident seems not to have had any lasting effect upon the relationship between JA and Hill. See entries for 29 July and 8 Aug. 1774, below.