1Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In England the probate of wills of personalty was within the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical...
2Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This case throws some light on the conduct of business in Boston in the middle 1760’s, but it is...
3Record: Suffolk Court of General Sessions, Boston, November 1768 (Adams Papers)
The Petition of the Selectmen of the Town of Brookline in the county of Suffolk, setting forth...
4Adams’ Commonplace Book: Ca. 1759 (Adams Papers)
Assumpsit. Sometimes signifies not only a Promise but an Actual Undertaking of the Business, an...
5Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
As in England, the Massachusetts justices of the peace, singly and in their joint capacity as the...
6Plea: 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...
7Writ of Certiorari: Suffolk Superior Court, Boston, July 1769 (Adams Papers)
To our trusty and well beloved Samuel Welles Esqr. first Justice of our Court of General Sessions...
8King’s Petition to the General Court: 4 January 1768 (Adams Papers)
Province of the Massachusetts Bay To His Excellency the Governor The Hon orab le His Majestys...
Covenant Broken. Plea. Special Demurrer. 1. 2. 3. 4. Joinder in Demurrer. Auchmuty. 2 Breaches...
10Jane Dotey’s Examination: Plymouth, 6 July 1769 (Adams Papers)
Plymouth Ss. The Information of Jane Doty now Residing in Duxborough single woman taken before me...
Humbly petitioning showeth Timothy Prout of Scarborough in the county of Cumberland Esqr. 1. That...
12Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This was an action brought by John Gray for injuries inflicted upon him by Lendall (or Lindall)...
13Writ of Review—Stewart et al. v. King: Cumberland Superior Court, Falmouth, June 1774 (Adams Papers)
To the Sheriff of our county of Cumberland his under-Sheriff or Deputy, Greeting. We command You...
14Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In August 1770, with Adams and Jonathan Sewall as his counsel, John Whiting had prevailed in an...
15Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 22 November 1762, Jeremiah Lee, prominent Marblehead ship owner and merchant, obtained a...
In the Case of Jane Dotey vs. Manuel Essane heard and adjudged at the Court of General Sessions...
17Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This action was the climax of a series of clashes between James Steel of Haverhill,...
J. Quincy . We had done nothing but what was justifiable by the Laws of our Country. J. Whitworth...
19Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Josiah Marshall had lived in Plympton from 1747 until 1753, and had then spent five years at...
20King to Silas Burbank, 31 May 1773 (Adams Papers)
I receved Yours of the 17th. Current, and a Second that appears to have ben wrote Since. In your...
21Deposition of Jonathan Wingate: 16 June 1773 (Adams Papers)
I Jonathan Wingate of lawful age testify and say that about eight or ten days before Mr. Richard...
In the Case of Hill Agt. Whiteing in Ejectment, Whether Hills Father died on the 21st or 30th day...
Lowell. Cun. 173. Concealment of Intelligence, a Fraud. Each Party ought to know all the...
Porter and Steel. Case for money received and promise to pay it. Plea no promise. Proof. Produced...
Warninig. Shurtleffe. J. Mar shall went from Plym pton to Mid dleborough 21. Dec. 1753. Mr....
26Deposition of Silas Burbank: 28 June 1773 (Adams Papers)
I Silas Burbanks of lawful age testify and say, that in the spring of the Year 1766, a few days...
27King’s Offer of Settlement: 27 May 1774 (Adams Papers)
Richard King To those Imediately Consirned in his action of review against them Depending &c. and...
28Adams’ Diary: 4 April 1767 (Adams Papers)
Poor Nye of Sandwich, seems dejected. I should suspect by his Concern that Cotton gained Ground...
29The Pleadings Book: 1771–1773 (Adams Papers)
Case on a Bill of Lading vs. Master for not delivering the Plaintiff’s Goods freighted on Board...
Lowell. 25 days a Chance. Judge Hutchinson. The Underwriters charged Lee with concealing some...
31Adams’ Minutes of the Testimony: Middlesex Court of General Sessions, Concord, September 1768 (Adams Papers)
Sarah Garfield. D eaco n Farrar. Last of Deer. It is Josiah Headleys. The next Saturday, she said...
32Paine’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...
Scurlogging. 3 Stewarts defaulted. 3 Andrews appear. By the Sullivans. Bradbury . Silas Burbank ....
Defendant It may be part of a great plan to get Representat ion over that Paper. It is true he...
35Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Prescott v. Keep, in which Keep, Adams’ client, was the original plaintiff, began with a...
36Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This is a companion case to Bancroft v. Lee , No. 10 . John Crowningshield was one of the...
37Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In August 1768, William Dix, a pauper, was removed from Boston to Chelsea by virtue of the...
38Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
At twenty-four Adams could ask, “But Quere, if Dissonance of Dispositions is a sufficient Reason...
39Adams’ Minutes of the Argument: Barnstable Superior Court, May 1767 (Adams Papers)
Otis . Certificate of General Assembly. Law very much altered of late Times. To prevent Gothic...
1756. Novr. Deed from Jonas Prescott to Jonas Jnr. of Gift. ¼th. 1749. Aug. 17th. from Jonas to...
41Adams’ 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...
Jno. Melzond . Was on board the Vessell with Captn. Burnam and Mr. Mugford. Burnam took an...
Trespass quare clausum fregit—Defendant pleads in abatement that one of the plaintiffs died since...
44Record: Middlesex Court of General Sessions, Concord, September 1769 (Adams Papers)
At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace begun and Held at Concord within and for the County...
45Adams’ 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...
On a Bill of Exchange, drawn on N. York, protested. Q. made was whether Bill on N. York was a...
47Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Jonathan Wilkins owned a pasture and apple orchard on Mill Brook in Middleton, near the Great...
48Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
John Mein’s stormy career was cut short by two actions brought against him by John Hancock under...
Putnam. C.J. If there is other Evidence of Circumstances that tend to render it probable, will...
50Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This complex litigation, a landmark in the history of Martha’s Vineyard, arose out of an unhappy...