21Abigail Adams to John Adams, 19 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
The great distance between us, makes the time appear very long to me. It seems already a month...
22Abigail Adams to John Adams, 2 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am very impatient to receive a letter from you. You indulged me so much in that Way in your...
23Abigail Adams to John Adams, 14 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Five Weeks have past and not one line have I received. I had rather give a dollar for a letter by...
24Abigail Adams to John Adams, 22 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have just returnd from a visit to my Brother, with my Father who carried me there the day...
25John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 13 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have been trying ever since you went away to learn to write you a Letter. I shall make poor...
26Elizabeth Smith to John Adams, 14 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have (my Dear Brother) been more than entertained by perusing a number of your Letters to my...
27Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
I dare not express to you at 300 hundred miles distance how ardently I long for your return. I...
28To John Adams from Richard Cranch, October 1756 (Adams Papers)
Tho’ I acknowledge that one ought never to be asham’d to speak the truth; yet I find my self much...
29To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 29 September 1759 (Adams Papers)
My Absence from home for this Week past has occasioned my delaying an Answer to your very...
30To John Adams from William Crawford, 13 January 1760 (Adams Papers)
I am lately come from divine Service, if I may be allowed the Expression, performd by the Revd....
31To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 13 February 1760 (Adams Papers)
In my last, if I rightly remember, I joined with you in your panegyric on the superior Rewards...
32To John Adams from William Crawford, 4 July 1763 (Adams Papers)
I hope you enjoy mens sana in Corpore Sano: My Body for more than six months past has been in...
33To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 15 February 1764 (Adams Papers)
You may remember we had some Confab. together about having the Small Pox in Concert. I intend...
34To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 5 October 1765 (Adams Papers)
The Bearers John Oliver and Michael Nagail are indicted of the ignominious narrow-Soul’d Crime of...
35To John Adams from William Cooper, 18 December 1765 (Adams Papers)
Boston, 18 December 1765. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
36To John Adams from Joseph Palmer, 1765 (Adams Papers)
My known fondness for Agriculture and Manufactures, has given many Opportunitys, which I have...
37To John Adams from the Sons of Liberty, 5 February 1766 (Adams Papers)
You doubtless and every American must be Sensible, that where there is a Union happily...
38To John Adams from Thomas Crafts Jr., 15 February 1766 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday I wrote you a few Lines by Docr. Tuffts informing you the Sons of Liberty Desired your...
39To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 11 March 1767 (Adams Papers)
11 March 1767. Enclosed in a letter from JA to Hezekiah Niles (5 Feb. 1819, LbC , Adams Papers )....
40To John Adams from Catharine Macaulay, 19 July 1771 (Adams Papers)
A very laborious attention to the finishing the fifth vol of my history of England with a severe...
41To John Adams from William Whipple, 13 February 1772 (Adams Papers)
Portsmouth, 13 February 1772. RC ( Adams Papers ); addressed: “To John Adams Esqr. at Boston...
42To John Adams from Nathaniel Freeman, 4 October 1772 (Adams Papers)
Sandwich, 4 October 1772. RC ( MiU-C ); addressed to John Adams in Boston; endorsed. Freeman...
43II. Samuel Adams to John Adams, 22 February 1773 (Adams Papers)
If you have had Leisure to commit your Thoughts to writing agreable to my Request I shall be...
44To John Adams from Joseph Hawley, 30 June 1773 (Adams Papers)
The letter inclosed herewith contains My Answer to the young Gentn. you was pleased recommend Me...
45To John Adams from Catharine Macaulay, August 1773 (Adams Papers)
I was very sorry to find by your favor of the 19 of Aprill that you had so many good reasons to...
In pursuance of a Resolution of this Society, I am to signify to you that you have this Day been...
47To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 11 October 1773 (Adams Papers)
MS ( Adams Papers ) in the hand of Mercy (Otis) Warren. This unsigned poem was doubtless an...
48To John Adams from James Warren, 3 January 1774 (Adams Papers)
I Received your last and am to Acknowledge that the Contents of it gave me great pleasure. I have...
49To John Adams from Edward Dilly, 4 March 1774 (Adams Papers)
The Letters you sent for Mrs. Macaulay directed, under Cover, for me, were put into the Post...
50To John Adams from William Woodfall, 12 March 1774 (Adams Papers)
As the Affairs of AMERICA are now agitating in both Houses of the English Parliament, and as it...
51To John Adams from Mary Nicolson, 26 May 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have this moment been enformd that You and a Number of Worthy Gentlemen, have been Honorably...
52To John Adams from Jonathan Williams, 28 June 1774 (Adams Papers)
We yesterday received your Letter directed to us, with those for Braintree, immediately on the...
53To John Adams from James and Mercy Otis Warren, 14 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
Yours of the 25th. of last month never reached me, till yesterday. It would have given me great...
54To John Adams from Edward Hill, 19 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
This may serve to apologize for so ungenteel a piece of Conduct as the carrying away a Sum of...
55To John Adams from Joseph Hawley, 25 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
I never recd. nor heard of your letter of the 27th June last, Wrote at Ipswich until the 22d...
56To John Adams from Jonathan Williams, 25 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter was this Day delivered to me in the office. Your obliging thanks for my duty gives me...
57To John Adams from Edward Hill, 29 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
Nothing could induce me to keep alive the remembrance of an affair which you will easily believe...
58To John Adams from John Tudor, 1 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
I Received your favor of the 23d. ult. but not til Satterday night as the man who promisd. to...
59To John Adams from Edward Hill, 8 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
Saturday a Man of war arrived with the new accounts. The Governor has summoned the new Council to...
60To John Adams from John Trumbull, 20 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
In the county of Worcester, the people, at a general meeting, have resolved that no court shall...
61To John Adams from William Tudor, 21 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
The great Obligations your Friendship has laid me under would render me inexcusable to neglect...
62To John Adams from William Tudor, 29 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you 21st. Inst. which I hope you have receiv’d. The publick Prints of to Day, Which you...
63To John Adams from Joseph Hawley, August 1774 (Adams Papers)
“We must fight , if we can’t otherwise rid ourselves of British taxation, all revenues, and the...
64To John Adams from William Tudor, 3 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
This Week has been fruitfull of extraordinary Transactions. I will endeavour to give You some...
65To John Adams from Edward Hill, 4 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you a fortnight ago by Mr. Sullivan, since which almost every day has produced some new...
66To John Adams from Catharine Macaulay, 11 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
A Very long and uninterrupted course of sickness has hitherto prevented me the pleasure of...
67To John Adams from Joseph Palmer, 14 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
The spirit of liberty is amazingly increased, so that there is scarce a tory and hardly a neutral...
68To John Adams from William Tudor, 17 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Nothing very material has taken Place here since Mr. Revere left Boston, by whom you will have...
69To John Adams from William Tudor, 22 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
On my Return from Salem this Afternoon I was gratified with the Receipt of your kind Letter dated...
70To John Adams from Benjamin Kent, 23 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Our enemies, for their own further security, as well as to bring the town into the most complete...