1[A Letter to Richard Cranch about Orlinda, a Letter on Employing One’s Mind, and Reflections on Procrastination, Genius … (Adams Papers)
What is Wisdom? Is it, to write dramatic Poetry, like Milton or Shakespear... ...Is it to write on...
2[December 1758] (Adams Papers)
Bob Paine is conceited and pretends to more Knowledge and Genius than he... ...told me the...
3From John Adams to Samuel Holden Parsons, 5 December 1760 (Adams Papers)
I presume upon the Merits of a Brother, both in the Academical ...Trouble and to ask the favour...
4VI. “U” to the Boston Gazette, 29 August 1763 (Adams Papers)
...having strutted and foamed his hour upon the stage and acquired as well as deserved a good...time
5[April 1766] (Adams Papers)
This was the Inferior Court of Common Pleas..... The Superior Court adjourned again, for a...
6Tuesday April 29th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
At Boston. To this day the Superiour Court was adjourned: Hutchinson, Lynde and Cushing were...
7[December 1766] (Adams Papers)
...Kingston.—I find a general Opposition in the County of Plymouth, to Compensation. Jacobs...
8[August 1769] (Adams Papers)
John Tudor Esq. came to me, and for the third Time repeated his Request that I would take his Son...
9Boston August 10. 1769. (Adams Papers)
John Tudor Esq. came to me, and for the third Time repeated his Request that I would take his Son...
10[August 1770] (Adams Papers)
...Gill an Intimation, that a Letter from me would not be disagreable to you, and have been...
111770. August. 9th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
...Gill an Intimation, that a Letter from me would not be disagreable to you, and have been...
12Adams’ Argument for the Defense: 3–4 December 1770 (Adams Papers)
May it please your Honours and you Gentlemen of the Jury,I am for the prisoners at the bar, and...
13[Independence of the Judges, 1773–1774] (Adams Papers)
In the Year 1773 arose a Controversy concerning the Independence of the Judges. The King had...
14II. To the Boston Gazette, 18 January 1773 (Adams Papers)
It has been said already, that the common law of England has not determined the judges to have an...
15VI. To the Boston Gazette, 8 February 1773 (Adams Papers)
Two or three anecdotes, were omitted in my last, for want of room, which... ...be here inserted,...
16[March 1773] (Adams Papers)
The two last Months have slided away. I have written... ...’s absurdities. The Governor and...
171773. March 22d. Monday. (Adams Papers)
, and Rome, in the Years 1767, 8, 9....under such Injunctions of Secrecy, as to the Person...
18John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
...but whether they have reached you I know not. There is so much Rascallity in the Management of...
19John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
...write to you, a Dozen Letters every day. But the Business before me, is so arduous and takes...
20III. To General Gage, 10 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
The Delegates from the Several Provinces in North America, now assembled in Congress,... ...to the...
...intimated my intention, of pursuing the Tories, through all their dark intrigues,... ...the...
The history of the Tories, begun in my last, will be interrupted for some time: but it shall be...be
We are at length arrived at the paper, ...shall not repeat, but proceed to consider the other part...
Such events as the resistance to the stamp act, and to the tea act, particularly the destruction...
Another Clause in the Charter, quoted by this Writer, contains the Power “to make Laws and...
26From John Adams to Josiah Quincy, 29 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
I had yesterday the honour of your letter of July the eleventh, and I feel myself much obliged,...
27John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
—What shall I say?—The Intelligence they contain, came upon me by Surprize, as... ...had the least...
28From John Adams to William Tudor, 12 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
I have received yours of the first of this Instant ...am glad to find you have me still in...
29From John Adams to James Otis Sr., 23 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
I had the Honour of your Letter of Novr. the Eleventh, ...and am very Sorry to learn that any...
30From John Adams to Joseph Hawley, 25 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
...five o Clock, I received your kind Letter of November the 14. dated at Brookfield—which was
31John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 December 1775 (Adams Papers)
Yours of Novr. 12 is before me. I wish I could write you every... ...Relations who are very dear...
32John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 April 1776 (Adams Papers)
You justly complain of my short Letters, but the critical State of Things and the Multiplicity of...
33From John Adams to William Heath, 15 April 1776 (Adams Papers)
Altho I never had the Pleasure and the Honour of so intimate an Acquaintance with you as I wished...
34From John Adams to James Warren, 20 May 1776 (Adams Papers)
...in upon Us Independance like a Torrent. The Delegates from Georgia, made their Appearance,...
35John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 May 1776 (Adams Papers)
...of May 9. and a third of May 14th. The last has given me Relief from many Anxieties. It...
36From John Adams to Richard Lee, 4 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
...Favour of 18 May, inclosing the momentous Resolution of your wise and patriotic Convention,...the
37John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
Your Favour of June 17. dated at Plymouth, was handed me, by Yesterdays Post. I was much pleased...
38John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
I am informed that you were about taking the Small Pox, with all the Children. . . . ...is not...the
39[July 1776] (Adams Papers)
The Limits of the Southern Colonies are fixed.... ...of Lands, not within the... ...be made...
40John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
Mr. A. and Coll. Whipple, are at length gone. Coll. Tudor went off with them... .... By the latter...
41John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
This is the Anniversary of a memorable day, in the History of America: a day when the Principle...
42From John Adams to James Warren, 17 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
I had a Letter from you, by the Post Yesterday. ...Self, on your happy Passage, through the...
43John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
The day before Yesterday and Yesterday, We expected Letters and... ...the Post, but by some...
44From John Adams to Joseph Hawley, 25 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
It is So long Since I had the Pleasure of Writing to you, or the Honour of receiving a Letter...
45John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Benjamin Smith of S. Carolina, was kind enough to send forward from New York, ...is... ...the...am
46John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 September 1776 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Bass arrived this Day, with the joyfull News, that you were all well. By this Opportunity, I...
47[Monday September 9, 1776.] (Adams Papers)
...Continental Commissions, and other Instruments where heretofore the Words, “United Colonies...
48[Tuesday. September 17th. 1776.] (Adams Papers)
Tuesday. September 17th. 1776. The Committee appointed to confer with Lord Howe, agreable to the...
49[Tuesday October 1. 1776.] (Adams Papers)
Resolved that a Committee of four be appointed to confer with Brigadier General Mifflin. The...
50[October 1st. 1776.] (Adams Papers)
Resolved that a Committee of four be appointed to confer with Brigadier General Mifflin. The...time