Note 17 — 2. John Adams.
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All the persons named in this letter reached eminence, both professional and political, in Massachusetts.
Of John and James Sullivan much information has been furnished in the memoir of the latter by Mr. T. C. Amory.
David Sewall, a classmate of John Adams at Harvard College, was made a Judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and afterwards transferred to the District Court of the United States for Maine. He died in 1825 at a very advanced age.
Theophilus Bradbury graduated at Harvard College in the year 1757. He served as a representative in the Congress of the United States in the fifth Congress, and afterwards as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. He died in 1803.