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Philadelphia, 18 June, 1775.
MY DEAR,
THIS letter, I presume, will go by the brave and amiable General Washington. Our army will have a group of officers equal to any service. Washington, Ward, Lee, Gates, Gridley, together with all the other New England officers, will make a glorious council of war.
This Congress are all as deep as the delegates from the Massachusetts, and the whole continent as forward as Boston. We shall have a redress of grievances, or an assumption of all the powers of Government, legislative, executive and judicial, through out the whole Continent, very soon. Georgia is be stirring itself. I mean, the whole of it. The Parish of St. John's, which is one third of it, was with us before.
I am, &c.
- John Adams
- Source:
- Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife. Edited by His Grandson, Charles Francis Adams, Volume I, 1841
