From John Adams to Alpheus Cary

9 October 1817

Sir,	Quincy Oct 9th 1817.

Will you be so good as to procure for me a piece of white marble four and twenty inches in length and twenty inches in breadth to be inserted in a slab of Quincy granite with the following inscription on it and send it to me and your bill shall be honoured by your friend and humble / servant

John Adams.

Inscription

Dedicated

to the memory of Joseph Adams senior who died December 6. 1694: and of Abigail his wife, whose first name was Baxter, who died August 27. 1694: by a great Grandson in 1817.

MHi: Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.

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