From Jeremy Belknap to John Adams, 31 January 1793
From Jeremy Belknap
Boston Jany 31. 1793
Dear Sir
I beg leave to congratulate you on your reelection as Vice President of the United States; and to ask your acceptance of a specimen of a monthly publication in wch you will find that your name & those of other American worthies are in future to be inscribed on a map of the Globe1
Yesterday we had an Academy meeting When Mr Fisher Ames & Dr Barton were chosen members—2 I enclose to you a subscription paper for a 2d Volume which we hope will be published if all the members will exert themselves to procure subscriptions3
I am Sir / Yr most hble Servt
Jeremy Belknap
RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The V P of United States.”
1. The enclosures have not been found. Capt. Joseph Ingraham (1762–1800), of the American brigantine Hope, named several areas now part of the Marquesas Islands in the south Pacific Ocean for American revolutionaries, including JA and George Washington (, 12:68–69).
2. For Dr. Benjamin Smith Barton, see JA’s 18 Feb. reply to Belknap, and note 5, below.
3. Belknap likely sent a copy of the 20 Dec. 1792 solicitation to publish the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ second volume of proceedings (Proposals to the Committee, 20 Dec. 1792, MBA:Projects and Programs, Early Records, 1784–1913).