31Adams’ Diary: 16 May 1767 (Adams Papers)
The Court was fixed in the Sandwich Case. Cotton is not only a Tory but a Relation of some of the...
32Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In the spring of 1770 the schooner Hitty , John Burnam, master, sailed from her home port of...
Jno. Melzond . Was on board the Vessell with Captn. Burnam and Mr. Mugford. Burnam took an...
34Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In the bitter verbal battling which rumbled beneath the physical violence of the...
News Paper. Jacobite Party. Kent . Odd that Edes and Gill should desire him to be of no Party....
36Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This was an action brought by John Gray for injuries inflicted upon him by Lendall (or Lindall)...
James Melvin . Saw Pitts push Gray off with one Hand and give him a stroke with his Stick. G. no...
J. Quincy . We had done nothing but what was justifiable by the Laws of our Country. J. Whitworth...
39Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This action was the climax of a series of clashes between James Steel of Haverhill,...
J ohn L owell . Receipt. Wm. Wingate. Serjeant. Mr. Webster. P orter said S teel owed him. Sued...
Porter and Steel. Case for money received and promise to pay it. Plea no promise. Proof. Produced...
42Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In June 1765 at Boston, James Warden endorsed two bills of exchange drawn on a New York...
On a Bill of Exchange, drawn on N. York, protested. Q. made was whether Bill on N. York was a...
44Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This case throws some light on the conduct of business in Boston in the middle 1760’s, but it is...
To the Sheriff of our county of Suffolk his Undersheriff or Deputy Greeting. We command you to...
46Plea: Suffolk Inferior Court, Boston, July 1767 (Adams Papers)
And the said James comes and defends &c., and saith that the said William hath not been damnified...
And the said William says that the plea aforsaid pleaded by the said James in manner and form...
Covenant Broken. Plea. Special Demurrer. 1. 2. 3. 4. Joinder in Demurrer. Auchmuty. 2 Breaches...
49Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 22 November 1762, Jeremiah Lee, prominent Marblehead ship owner and merchant, obtained a...
Bac. 3. 599. Tit. Merchant. “Where a Policy is a perfect Cheat as where a Person, having certain...
Lowell. Cun. 173. Concealment of Intelligence, a Fraud. Each Party ought to know all the...
Lowell. 24 or 25 days a Chance. Passages from 17 to 25. Vessell in Time. A fair Chance. Did not...
Lowell. 25 days a Chance. Judge Hutchinson. The Underwriters charged Lee with concealing some...
Lee—Bancroft. Review. Some Terms agon the parties agreed (Nov. 1771) to make 2 questions—1....
55Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This is a companion case to Bancroft v. Lee , No. 10 . John Crowningshield was one of the...
Receipt for the Money, “and Costs of C our t.” 1762. Aug. 9. Sailing orders. To proceed to...
57Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
John Mein’s stormy career was cut short by two actions brought against him by John Hancock under...
58Correspondence of James Murray, John Fleeming, and Sheriff Stephen Greenleaf: March—May 1770 (Adams Papers)
In order to prevent as much as may be any damage to any of the parties in the said suits or to...
The Jury found a Verdict for the Sum sued for. Kent moved that the Verdict should be rejected. I...
60Adams’ Diary Notes on the Right of Juries: 1771. Feby. 12. (Adams Papers)
At a Time, when the Barriers against Popery, erected by our Ancestors, are suffered to be...
61Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Although there was no court of equity in provincial Massachusetts, the law courts were able to...
Humbly petitioning showeth Timothy Prout of Scarborough in the county of Cumberland Esqr. 1. That...
Fitch . 2 Vernon 539. 540. Payment to Obligee, after Notice of an Assignment is not good. The...
64Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This case and Nos. 18–19 and 20–21 reflect some of the legal problems arising from the dependence...
65Paine’s Minutes of the Trial: Plymouth Inferior Court, July 1768 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Adams . The grass was good till it was pastured and the bushes grew up; if the mill had not...
66Adams’ Minutes of the Trial: Plymouth Superior Court, May 1769 (Adams Papers)
Keens Witnesses. Ed. Thomas . Known Georges Meadow 30 Years. Carted the Grass 2 Years. It was a...
67Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The litigation arising from Samuel Clap’s will is illustrative of two very important features of...
68Adams’ Address and Minutes of the Argument: Supreme Court of Probate, February 1768 (Adams Papers)
Samuel Clap Testator, left a Grandson Michael Clap, Son of the Eldest Son of the Testator, whose...
69Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In England the probate of wills of personalty was within the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical...
70Adams’ Minutes of the Trial: Plymouth Superior Court, May 1769 (Adams Papers)
Lex Test., Page 576. Stephens vs. Gerard, 1. Sid. 315. Page 571, Sackville vs. Brown. Page 576,...
71Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In August 1770, with Adams and Jonathan Sewall as his counsel, John Whiting had prevailed in an...
In this Case the Plaintiff has alledged that her Father died seized on the Thirtyeth of the...
In the Case of Hill Agt. Whiteing in Ejectment, Whether Hills Father died on the 21st or 30th day...
74Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Prescott v. Keep, in which Keep, Adams’ client, was the original plaintiff, began with a...
See 1. Inst. 200 b. to maintain this Action. Litt. §315. T enant s in Common shall have personal...
1756. Novr. Deed from Jonas Prescott to Jonas Jnr. of Gift. ¼th. 1749. Aug. 17th. from Jonas to...
8 Mod. page 115, 16. Hardwick’s Cases. Gilbert’s Hist. of Common Pleas. Dana. Gershorn Fletcher ....
Trespass quare clausum fregit—Defendant pleads in abatement that one of the plaintiffs died since...
79Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Jonathan Wilkins owned a pasture and apple orchard on Mill Brook in Middleton, near the Great...
June 1771 . Wilkins v. Fuller. Trespass on the case for flowing land &c. Motion first day of the...