1Toast to John Adams, 4 July 1824 (Adams Papers)
July 4, 1824
2From John Adams to John Jay, 4 July 1823 (Adams Papers)
Quincy, Mass. July 4, 1823
3From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 30 April 1823 (Adams Papers)
...incapable of Searching for Books or dates—and my memory may not be depended upon—but according to my recollection the question of the Declaration of Independence was decided in a Committee of the whole house on the 2d. of July. They made their report but that report was not decided on in Congress—Congress chose to meditate on the subject another night and made the subject the order ...July...
4John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
; endorsed by TJ as received 23 July 1822 and so recorded in , 11 July. : Adams Papers); dated 10 July 1822. are killed by bears (Luke 15.16; Daniel 4.25, 32–3; 2 Kings 2.23).
5From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 24 June 1822 (Adams Papers)
...the Mississippi navigation, but, if it abrogated that article why did it not abrogate every other article in the treaty of 1783. Every argument weged in support of our right to independence in the declaration of independence on the 4th. of July is equally applicable in support of our right to fish on the coast of Labrador, and to cure fish on the Lands of Labrador, as much as to our right to...
6From John Adams to Joseph E. Sprague, 4 August 1821 (Adams Papers)
I owe you many thanks for the present of an ingenious, entertaining and valuable oration, pronounced by you on the 4th of July, before the Salem Charitable Mechanic Association. I have read it with great pleasure, as 1 have all the orations which have been sent me this year. I have been much affected with the remarkable uniformity of principles and...
7From John Adams to Joseph E. Sprague, 30 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
I owe you many thanks for the present of an ingenious entertaining & valuable oration pronounced by you on the 4 July before the Salem charitable Mechanic association. I have read it with great pleasure as I have all the orations which have been sent me this year. I have been much affected with the remarkable uniformity of principles & sentiments...
8From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 8 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
...most amiable gentleman, whose name is Vanderkemp; another from Mr Jefferson; another from Dr Rush; and others from some other persons unnecessary to be named at present. It would have given me great pleasure to have celebrated the 4th. of July with the government and people in Boston, but palsey nerves, and purblind eyes, feeble knee
9From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 6 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
Ditto from 3rd Febry 1777 to 7th July 1777.4.
10From John Adams to William Bentley, 21 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
4. Is it possible that Such Resolutions Should have escaped the vigitant Attention, the Seralinizing penetrating Minds of Patrick Henry, R. H. Lee, Mr. Jefferson, Mr Gadsden, Mr Rutledge, Mr Jay Mr Sherman, Mr Samuel... Adams? Haud credo. I cannot believe that they were known to one Member of Congress on the 4th. of July 1776.The Declaration of Independence, made by Congress on the 4th. of July...