1[April 19. 1778.] (Adams Papers)
was writing was a major general and who became governor general of British North America and an unlucky figure in the northern campaigns of the war of 1812. See
2Charles Adams to John Adams, 6 December 1793 (Adams Papers)
Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812
3John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 2 October 1798 (Adams Papers)
The Union Bank was incorporated in 1792 as Boston’s third commercial bank. Shares purchased for $200 were worth $250 by late 1793, and the value of the stock remained above par until adversely affected by the War of 1812.
4Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 June 1799 (Adams Papers)
.... On 23 May 1799 he married Elizabeth Sophia Duché (1774–1808), the fourth daughter of Rev. Jacob and Elizabeth Hopkinson Duché. Henry later settled in Canada and would play a key role in the precipitation of the War of 1812 (
5Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 31 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
New York City and Vicinity During the War of 1812–’15
6John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 22 January 1804 (Adams Papers)
Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights in the War of 1812
7Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
British impressment of American seamen, a grievance normally associated with the War of 1812, actually antedated even the Revolution, as the present case shows. Early in the morning of Saturday, 22 April 1769, H.M. Frigate
8Will of Deacon John Adams, with Comments by His Son John, 8 January 1760; 10 July 1761; 29 April 1774 (Adams Papers)
...served in the siege of Boston, and became Quincy’s first representative in the General Court, 1792, 1794. But he emerged from obscurity only occasionally, for example in his disagreement with his brother the ex-President over the War of 1812, Peter being an uncompromising New England Federalist. See references to him in
9Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
...of the Novanglus letters was printed. In 1818 Abraham Hews Jr. and Sylvester Goss, inspired by the burst of nationalist fervor which swept across the country in the aftermath of the War of 1812, conceived the idea of reproducing the Novanglus and Massachusettensis letters together in a single book. The two Boston printers obtained from Adams, who at the time was busily exhorting his...
...later career proved happier than Sullivan’s. Carberry managed to rehabilitate himself and resume his career, serving as a captain in the U.S. Army from 1791 until his resignation in 1794 and, during the War of 1812, as a lieutenant colonel in the 36th U.S. Infantry. Sullivan, on the other hand, had his claim to pay and commutation denied by Congress in 1786 owing to his “having withdrawn...