ADS, signed “John Adams,” one page, 6 x 4, June 18, 1764. Handwritten financial document by John Adams, signed within the text as payee: "Braintree, June 18th, 1764. For Value rec'd I promise to pay John Adams or his order Ten Pounds, eighteen shillings and six pence of lawfull money, on demand with lawful interest therefore till paid. Signed at the conclusion by a Samuel Clark, and countersigned by Joseph Terrell as a witness. The document is also docketed on the reverse in John Adams's hand, tallying up payments on the debt. In fine condition.
At the time he signed this document, the future second president was a young attorney living in Braintree, about 14 miles south of Boston. A few weeks earlier, he had traveled to nearby Boston to take advantage of an inoculation program designed to ward off a smallpox epidemic ravishing the colonies—a preventative measure that left him confined to bed for three weeks. Four months later after signing this document, Adams had fully recovered and married Abigail Smith, the future first lady.
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