1Will of Deacon John Adams, with Comments by His Son John, 8 January 1760; 10 July 1761; 29 April 1774 (Adams Papers)
In the Name of God Amen. The Eighth day of January in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven...
2From John Adams to Samuel Quincy, October – November 1758 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, October–November? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams ,...
3From John Adams to Josiah Quincy, 17 May 1759 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, post 17 May 1759. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
4A Dissertation upon Office-Seekers, 26 December 1765 (Adams Papers)
26 December 1765. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams ,...
5Notes on the Opening of the Courts, 19 December 1765 (Adams Papers)
Common Law is common Right, 1. Inst. 142.a. Cokes Proem to 2d Inst. The Law is the Subjects best...
6I. Adams’ Original Draft, 24 September 1765 (Adams Papers)
In all the Calamities, which have ever befallen this our dear native Country, since our the first...
7From John Adams to Robert Treat Paine, 6 December 1759 (Adams Papers)
I was too much gratified with the Proposal you made me of writing to you, to neglect it long. For...
8From John Adams to Jonathan Sewall, February 1760 (Adams Papers)
I am very willing to join with you, in renouncing the Reasoning of some of our last Letters....
9From John Adams to Jonathan Sewall, 10 September 1760 (Adams Papers)
You have perhaps expected from me (according to the Custom of the World) some Expressions of my...
10Genealogical Note, 7 August 1773 (Adams Papers)
Mr Henry Adams before the year 1640, I cant Say how long before, came from Bristol in England,...
11From John Adams to Samuel Holden Parsons, 5 December 1760 (Adams Papers)
I presume upon the Merits of a Brother, both in the Academical and legal family, to give you this...
12From John Adams to Nathan Webb, 1 September 1755 (Adams Papers)
The Favour you granted me on aug. 12 was unluckily packeted with a number of Letters and carried...
13Draft of a New Year’s Address to His Nieces, January 1761 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
Braintree, May 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams ,...
15II. 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...
All that part of Creation that lies within our observation is liable to Change. Even mighty...
Braintree, March? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
18IV. To the Boston Gazette, 25 January 1773 (Adams Papers)
Another observation which occurred to me upon reading General Brattle’s first publication, was...
19From John Adams to the Reverend Jacob Bailey, January 1756 (Adams Papers)
I receiv’d your favour of Decr. 29. about 3 or 4 Days after it was wrote. The bearer left it at...
“Ignorance and Inconsideration,” (says Dr. Tillotson) “are the two great Causes of the Ruin of...
21Draft of a Letter to All Young Gentlemen on the Evils of Factionalism, February 1763 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, February 1763. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
22VI. To the Boston Gazette, 8 February 1773 (Adams Papers)
Two or three anecdotes, were omitted in my last, for want of room, which may be here inserted, in...
23I. To J Philanthrop, 9 December 1766 (Adams Papers)
I confess I was in Hopes, that after the Repeal of the ever memorable Stamp Act, The People of...
24Suffolk County Bar Book, 3 January 1770 – 26 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
Boston,3 January 1770 – 26 July 1774. MS book containing 138 numbered pages ( MHi ). Printed:...
25From John Adams to Catharine Macaulay, 9 August 1770 (Adams Papers)
Boston9 August 1770. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams ,...
26From John Adams to Richard Cranch, 29 August 1756 (Adams Papers)
I am set down with a Design of writing to you.—But the narrow Sphere I move in, and the lonely...
THUS accomplished were many of the first Planters of these Colonies. It may be thought polite and...
28VIII. To the Boston Gazette, 22 February 1773 (Adams Papers)
In all General Brattle’s researches hitherto, aided and assisted as he has been by mine, we have...
29From John Adams to Richard Cranch, 18 October 1756 (Adams Papers)
In my last you remember I desired your sincere Opinion of the new Resolution I had taken, but as...
30From John Adams to William Crawford, October 1758 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, October? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams , ed. L....