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[Wednesday April 24.]
[from the Autobiography of John Adams]

[Wednesday April 24.]

Wednesday April 24. Thomas Heywood [Heyward] Junr. Esqr. a new Member from Carolina, and an excellent one, appeared in Congress from South Carolina. On him We could always depend for sound Measures, though he seldom spoke in public. Thomas Lynch Junr. Esqr. also appeared.

Congress resolved itself into a Committee of the whole, but came to no resolutions.

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    “[Wednesday April 24.] ,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0016-0106. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 3, Diary, 1782–1804; Autobiography, Part One to October 1776, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 379.]