He [Mr. Antsy] has called upon Pappa once before but I did not then see him and today was the first time and without Hesitation I can say he is the handsomest, politest best bred Englishman I have yet seen. In short I doubted whether he really was an Englishman his manners were perfectly easy and polite and he was the admiration of the Company.
—Abigail Adams Smith, daughter of John and Abigail Adams, 1786
Miniature portrait from the Massachusetts Historical Society collection:
1795, after the John Singleton Copley portrait.
Miniature portrait from the Massachusetts Historical Society collection:
1795, after the John Singleton Copley portrait.
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