From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 21 April 1811

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“We had made two propositions for consideration and discussion. One the line of forty five degrees; the other a line through the middle of the lakes. And for the bounds between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia a line from the mouth of St. Croix to its source, and from its source to the Highlands. I was for insisting on the river St. Johns as the true river St. Croix, and for this construction there not wanting, at least plausible arguments; but both of my colleagues tho’t it would be too hazardous to contend for a river which was not named in the charter of Massachusetts against a river that was named in it and I readily acquiesced.”

“From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 21 April 1811,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-5633

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