1Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 12 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
...wholy for a walk & flowers. it has a Hawthorn hedge & Rows of Trees with a Broad Gravel...
2List of Plants from John Bartram’s Nursery, March 1792 (Washington Papers)
foliage beautiful; silvered with white cottony down, underside. [Hawthorn]
3To James Madison from John Beckley, 20 April 1795 (Madison Papers)
..., Havens, Livingston, Van Cortlandt, Bailey, Hawthorn, & Williams are on the republican side...