Jno. Melzond . Was on board the Vessell with Captn. Burnam and Mr. Mugford. Burnam took an...
Lowell. Cun. 173. Concealment of Intelligence, a Fraud. Each Party ought to know all the...
June 1771 . Wilkins v. Fuller. Trespass on the case for flowing land &c. Motion first day of the...
June 1771 Smith and Wilkins v. Fuller. Bacon Trespass 212. Contin uand o in trespass may be waved...
James Melvin . Saw Pitts push Gray off with one Hand and give him a stroke with his Stick. G. no...
To The Honle. His Majesty’s Justices of the Supr. Court of Judicature Court of Assize &c. Now...
57Adams’ Notes of Authorities and Minutes of the Hearing: Governor and Council, Boston, 17 October 1771 (Adams Papers)
Godolphin’s Repertorium Canonicum 507. “Wife libelled Husband in the Ecclesiastical Court for...
Lowell. 24 or 25 days a Chance. Passages from 17 to 25. Vessell in Time. A fair Chance. Did not...
J. Quincy . We had done nothing but what was justifiable by the Laws of our Country. J. Whitworth...
Deed. Wm. Fuller to Jona. Wilkins. Archelaus Fuller . Known the Place there 30 years. Wilkins...
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...
1756. Novr. Deed from Jonas Prescott to Jonas Jnr. of Gift. ¼th. 1749. Aug. 17th. from Jonas to...
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...
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....
68Deposition of John Newbegin: 19 January 1773 (Adams Papers)
I John Newbegin of Lawful Age testify and say that the Evening of the 18th Day of March 1766...
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...
71King 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...
Richard King v. Jno. Stewart & al This was an action of trespass—and on motion of Mr. Bradbury...
73Deposition 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...
74Burbank’s Release: 28 June 1773 (Adams Papers)
Whereas Richard King Esq. hath released me from Gaol where I have been sometime confined by...
75Deposition 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...
See 1. Inst. 200 b. to maintain this Action. Litt. §315. T enant s in Common shall have personal...
77King’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...
78Writ 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...
79Deposition of Jonathan Sayward: 29 June 1774 (Adams Papers)
Jonathan Sayward of York in Said County of York, Esqr. Testifys and Says that He very well knew...
Scurlogging. 3 Stewarts defaulted. 3 Andrews appear. By the Sullivans. Bradbury . Silas Burbank ....
81John Adams to Abigail Adams: Falmouth, 7 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am engaged in a famous Cause: The Cause of King, of Scarborough vs. a Mob, that broke into his...
82Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The two documents which follow are virtually all that have survived pertinent to Adams’ early law...
83Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In common with most lawyers John Adams maintained a collection of pleading forms to help in...
84Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This complex litigation, a landmark in the history of Martha’s Vineyard, arose out of an unhappy...
85Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This case, an early instance of patriotic violence which disturbed Adams deeply, arose on the...
86Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This suit, as Adams noted in his diary, “arose from Ambition” and (apparently) from competition...
87Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In the spring of 1770 the schooner Hitty , John Burnam, master, sailed from her home port of...
88Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In the bitter verbal battling which rumbled beneath the physical violence of the...
89Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This was an action brought by John Gray for injuries inflicted upon him by Lendall (or Lindall)...
90Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This action was the climax of a series of clashes between James Steel of Haverhill,...
91Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In June 1765 at Boston, James Warden endorsed two bills of exchange drawn on a New York...
92Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This case throws some light on the conduct of business in Boston in the middle 1760’s, but it is...
93Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 22 November 1762, Jeremiah Lee, prominent Marblehead ship owner and merchant, obtained a...
94Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This is a companion case to Bancroft v. Lee , No. 10 . John Crowningshield was one of the...
95Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
John Mein’s stormy career was cut short by two actions brought against him by John Hancock under...
96Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Although there was no court of equity in provincial Massachusetts, the law courts were able to...
97Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This case and Nos. 18–19 and 20–21 reflect some of the legal problems arising from the dependence...
98Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The litigation arising from Samuel Clap’s will is illustrative of two very important features of...
99Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In England the probate of wills of personalty was within the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical...
100Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In August 1770, with Adams and Jonathan Sewall as his counsel, John Whiting had prevailed in an...