1From John Adams to William Bentley, 16 November 1809 (Adams Papers)
I am not under less obligations to you for your Letter of the first of this month, for having neglected So long to acknowledge the Receipt of it. I Shall certainly communicate your Letters to the Historical Society or to the Agricultural Society. Indeed I think they deserve to be recorded by both. At the most proper Time for grafting in the Spring I should be very much obliged to you for a few...
2From John Adams to William Bentley, May 1810 (Adams Papers)
I received from our Quincy Stage under the direction of Mr Thayer a Box of Scions from The Endicott Pear Tree, carefully preserved and in admirable order for which I pray you accept my best Thanks. I have engrafted a number of Stocks which have taken very well according to their present appearance, and have distributed others to several Gentlemen in this and the Neighbouring, Towns. Mr Norton...
3From John Adams to William Bentley, 13 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Mr Knox, a Son of General Knox, the Bearer of this Letter, was appointed a Midshipman on Board the Constitution fourteen years fifteen years ago, and afterwards a Lieutenant on Board the Chesapeake. He Served in the Navy about three years, and afterwards made a Voyage to the East Indies. He has lately Studied Medicine and Surgery under Dr Smith at Hanover. The War has revived his inclination...
4From John Adams to William Bentley, 30 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
Well knowing your love of your Country, and your judicious discrimination in the choice of measures to promote its interest; I presume you will not be displeased, with the enclosed volume. Be so good as to accept it as a very small expression of gratitude for the many civilities I have received from you. At the same time your situation may afford, opportunities of improving the work and...
5From John Adams to William Bentley, 24 September 1815 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Letter of the 19th. and the important Box. I pray you to express to my Brother Octogenarian Mr Endicott my particular Obligation to him for his kind and obliging attention which has a greater Charm in it for me than a thousand panegyrical Puffs in Newspapers or the costly Presents of Emperors Kings or Princes would have if they had ever fallen to my Lott, which they never...