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2126. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, Signers of.—[further continued] .

I think Mr. Adams will
outlive us all, I mean the Declaration-men, although
our senior since the death of Colonel
Floyd. It is a race in which I have no ambition
to win.—
To Henry Dearborn. Washington ed. vii, 214. Ford ed., x, 191.
(M. Aug. 1821)