1From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
...Value of it: but I Should as Soon think of asking them to Sell me two Pounds of thier Flesh like Shylock. On thier first Settlement they erected a Malthouse pro more Anglicano, which converted Barley into Beer for the whole Town and Neighbourhood. Many a time when I was a little Boy have I carried Barley for my Father to be malted by my Great Uncle, Captain and Deacon Peter Adams, who used...
2From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 11 February 1810 (Adams Papers)
Are not Doctors Lawyers Priests, Merchants, Armies Navies, Commerce Manufactures Fisheries, Wheat Rye Barley Oats, Buckwheat, Wine Oyl Cyder Beer Punch Flip, Slings Drams, Shirts Sheets, Wool and Silk all the Curses of the Fall of Man? Yes every one of them: as much as Government, Jails Stocks and Whipping Posts. Why Should We loose ourselves...
3From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 June 1807 (Adams Papers)
...Poet, discarded by his Father from all the Apartments in his House but his Kitchen, who was frequently Seen drunk and asleep in the Streets, was hired from time to time, with Potts of Strong Beer, by Andrew Brown, to Step aside into a Closet in his House and write virulent Libells against me, for the Philadelphia Gazette. It was not long before this insolent Sott, drank himself into his...