1To George Washington from Robert Adam, 24 June 1771 (Washington Papers)
—I was this Morning a good deal Alarmed when we began to Overhaul your Herrings the first 3 or 4 Barrels we opned were in exceeding Bad Order On the top they were laid in promisscously without either form of packing or Salt and most of those they were filled up with were realy Spoiled Herrings I had then determined to... ...the whole which I have done this day they have lost a Barrel & taken...
2To George Washington from Robert Adam, 7 January 1775 (Washington Papers)
punceons of Jamaica Rum & three Hhd Sugar, this is my whole Amount received for 1000 Barrels herrings all the Rum Exceepting 2 hhd remains on hand ...House above 3000 Bushs: good Salt which as its Stored I think well worth 2/ per Bushel I shall also have from 800 to 1000 full Bound Barrels & there is upwards of 200 hhd in & about the House all of which I empower you to sell and receive...
3William Ramsay, Robert Adam and Carlyle & Dalton to GW and John West, 16 May 1774 (Washington Papers)
...a penalty of 5/ and a forfeiture of the Herring and Barrells, one half to the informer, the other to the Parish for the use of the poor, from every person that sold or offered to sell any barrelled Herrings without inspection, or in any way not in conformity to the Act of Assembly—It wou’d be of great use, was a culler of staves and a sworn measurer put into the Herring Bill to be presented...
4Abigail Adams to John Adams, 17 March 1794 (Adams Papers)
.... one hundred & 50 I shall send out for stock. we cannot expect to get Cows under 20 & some have been sold at 23 dollors. we have two calves which we are raising— I have got a Barrel of Rum and a Barrel of Molasses a hundred of sugar, which come to 54 dollors all these articles have risen since I first sent to ask the price of them. I want 50 weight of Coffe & some Chocolat I wish to know...
5Abigail Adams to John Adams, 14 March 1794 (Adams Papers)
...canker worm, the 2 day of March. we were the earliest in Town, and we have already slain our thousands. other people are but just begining, mr Black yesterday. I have sent to Town for an other Barrel of Tar—yet they use it more prudently than the last year. the Season is not so forward by a fortnight as the last year. the Roads have been so bad the frost just comeing out of the Ground...Barrels
6Abigail Adams to John Adams, 28 February 1794 (Adams Papers)
...terms with shaw which is that of only finding wood during the Summer. Young Stock must be sent out after. I shall have occasion for the following large Articles, a Load of English Hay some time in March a Barrel of Rum a Barrel of Molasses and a hundred of Brown Sugar which would be best purchased soon, as their is a prospect from the fluctuating state of things that they will be much higher...
7Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 11 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
...not unlikly that we may be Destitute of some of them. I have engaged to write to you for those things which may be imediatly necessary upon our arrival viz a Box of candles part mould & part dipt a Barrel of soap a Barrel of super fine flower a Loaf of sugar 14 Brown 1 pd suchong Tea half dozen pd coffe ditto chocolat. Grain Rye & Indian are easily procured suppose I need not be anxious...
8Abigail Adams to John Adams, 21 September 1777 (Adams Papers)
...corn storks and boiling the Liquor into Molasses. Scarcly a Town or parish within 40 miles of us but what have several mills at work, and had the experiment been made a month sooner many thousand Barrels would have been made, no less than 80 have already been made in the small Town of Manchester. It answers very well to distill, and may be boild down to Sugar. There are two mills...
9Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 20 January 1787 (Adams Papers)
...made out a pompus advertizement of a costly secreet which she possesst for purifying and beautifying the complexion, nothing less than Tuscorora Rice at a Guiney an oz. The project took like the olympian dew at this Day, and Barrel after Barrel was disposd of at the moderate price before mentiond, till one fatal day, a sailor whose wife had procured one Quarter of an oz was caught in the...
10Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
asked that her previous request for two barrels of flour be sent not by Briesler, as originally requested, but instead by Capt. Samuel Eames. She further reported that she had presented a barrel of flour to