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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup
This is likely a bit of historical mythology, though. All that's known for sure is that he said "Thomas Jefferson" shortly before dying, the context was unintelligible.
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But mythology supported by more than mere conjecture. There was a vein running through correspondence between the two men about "holding on" until the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It's likely as not to have been the subject of Adams' dying ponderances about T.Jefferson.
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