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Excerpt from Life in a New England Town; 1787, 1788: Diary of John Quincy Adams, While a Student in the Office of Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport
William Stedman, born in Cambridge, Opened his law Office in Lancaster; died in 1831. When J. Q. Adams was a member of the national Senate, William Stedman was in the House of Representatives (1803 and lodged with J. Q. Adams's colleague, Timothy Pickering. It is probable that their relations were not then altogether cordial, as, a few weeks after his arrival, J. Q. Adams heard from his cousin, William Shaw, that William Stedman was the writer of a letter to the Centinel criticising very severely his attitude to the Louisiana question, etc., and ending with this summary of J. Q. Adams's course thus far.
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