We have had a Gang of Thieves infesting this Town since you left it. The thursday after you went away Shaw and James went into the woods and in the day time the best saddle was stolen out of the Barn closset. The same Night mr Cary had his best Horse stolen and mr Smith who lives on mrs Rows place had his taken the same night and last Sunday morning James came Running in to inform me that his Stables had been attempted, and his Lock broken, but being doubly secured the villan could not effect his purpose. He tried the Coach house door and split of a peice of the door, but could not get the Bar out. He went on to mr Adams's at Milton and stole his Horse. A Traveller lodged at Marches Tavern on saturday night, who got up in the Night Rob'd the House of various articles of wearing Apparal and made of. We Suppose that he was the person who attempted our stables and that he belongs to a Gang. They are in pursuit of him.
- Abigail Adams to John Adams on "Decbr 4th 1792" - taken from My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor
[The town was Quincy, Massachusetts.]
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