GENERAL WASHINGTON'S LETTER TO JOHN ADAMS, 1798
Descended through the family of Noah Doggett (Boston, 1770-1842) to the present.
an 18th c. period printing (Published for General Information): Declaring his ACCEPTANCE of the Command of the ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES.
GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE/BELIEVING the the Letter received this morning, from General WASHINGTON, will give high satisfaction to the Senate, I transmit them a copy of it, and congratulate them and the public on this great event, the General's acceptance of his appointment, as Lieutenant-General and Commander in Chief of the Army./John Adams/United States, July 17th, 1798
18" by 11"
Noah Doggett (1770-1842) purchased a house on the corner of Tremont and Hollis Street in Boston from his father-in-law Nathaniel Bradlee, a carpenter who built the house in 1771. Noah Doggett was married to Bradlee's daughter Elizabeth (178-1869). This was the house in 1793 where Bradlee and his cohorts dressed as Native Americans before embarking on their mission in 1773 to dump tea into Boston Harbor as a protest for taxation, the event now known as The Boston Tea Party. Their son, Nathaniel Bradlee Doggett (1818-1906) inherited the house. Tragically, the house was torn down in 1898. The 1900 Census showed that Nathaniel was living on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston with his son, Samuel Bradlee Doggett (1858-1938).
Brewster Dayton Doggett of Wiscasset, Maine was born in 1909.
See A History of the Doggett-Daggett Family (Boston, 1894)
Estimate: $500 - $700
Realized: $800 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 77 : GENERAL WASHINGTON'S LETTER TO JOHN ADAMS, 1798
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