13-07-2025
Budget woes jeopardize plan for costly new D.C. Archives building
Archivist Lopez D. Matthews Jr. took a gray storage box from the safe and withdrew a folder containing a copy of the last will and testament of President John Quincy Adams, who died in Washington in 1848.
Among other things, Adams had left his son, Charles Francis, pew number fifty-four in the family church in Quincy, Massachusetts, pew number five in the church gallery, and the family tomb in the adjacent grave yard.
