Adams, John

1 page (12 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 327 x 194 mm) on a bifolium of laid paper, Philadelphia, 26 December 1792; tipped to thin mat board, very short separations at fore-edges of horizontal creases. Housed in a half brown morocco portfolio with an engraved portrait of Adams.

Philip M. Neufeld (Christie's, 25 April 1995, lot 1)

1 page (12 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 327 x 194 mm) on a bifolium of laid paper; tipped to thin mat board, very short separations at fore-edges of horizontal creases. Housed in a half brown morocco portfolio with an ebgraved portrait of Adams.
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As President of the Senate, Adams records that he has "Recd from the Hand of Doctor Stephen White a Packet certified by the Electors of North Carolina to contain a List of their Votes for President and Vice President of the United States." George Washington received the highest possible number of votes, 132, representing one of the two votes cast by every elector. Adams received the second highest number of votes, 77, and so earned another term as Vice President. Ironically, the twelve North Carolina electors each cast one vote for Washington and one for Adams's rival, George Clinton of New York.