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John Quincy Adams, Notice at the sale of part of John Adams estate at Quincy

27 September 1826

Notice at the Sale on Wednesday 27. September 1826.
September 27, 1826

Terms of Sale, cash, to be paid on delivery of each Article—on Friday or Saturday the 29th. or 30th. instt. No earnest required—but every Article not taken and paid for on that day will be considered by the Executors as not sold—and will be resold at the risk of the first purchaser

The Tomb is sold only because it was considered the Law required that it should be—The Executors reserve to themselves the right of removing all the remains deposited in it, before they deliver possession of it to the purchaser. The Tomb alone is sold.

The Books in the [Pews] are also reserved, and not included in the sale.

The Quincy lot, will be sold on the same terms as those of the sale of Lands last Week.

MHi: Adams Papers.

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