1To Thomas Jefferson from Abigail Adams, 7 October 17[85] (Jefferson Papers)
...against the custom House, and hope they will meet your approbation. I think them finer than the pattern, but it is difficult judging by so small a Scrap. I have also bought you two pairs of Nut crackers for which I gave four Shillings. We [find them so?] convenient that I thought they would be equally so to you. The]re is the article of Irish linen which is much Superiour here to any...
2Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 7 October 1785 (Adams Papers)
I have also bought you two pair of Nut crackers for which I gave four shillings, we
3From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 10 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
...some of my jocular moments I have compared myself to an animal I have seen, take hold of the end of a cord with his teeth and be drawn slowly up by pullies, through a storm of squibs, crackers, and rockets, flashing and blazing round him every moment: and though the scorching flames made him groan, and mourn, and roar, he would not let go his hold till he had reached the ceiling of a...
4John Quincy Adams, Account of Sale of Part of John Adams’s Estate, 27 September 1826 (Adams Papers)
2 Nut Crackers
5Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 May 1804 (Adams Papers)
much again[st] my inclination but cracker and water alone is not sufficiently nourish[ing] I enter into these particulars because I am sure they must be interesting and because I wish you to know how I go on in your absence—
6Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 January 1803 (Adams Papers)
...of foreign politics, such as you once executed when abroad, exhibited in the same way, from time to time, would be a valuable acquisition. Occasional animadversions upon our domestic affairs will also be acceptable. The squibs & crackers, we can let off here, but the heavy artillery of politics, to carry on the siege against the administration, must come
7Enclosure: Packing List from John Barnes, 7 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Water Crackers Box Water Crackers
8To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 10 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Jamesons Crackersjamesons crackers
9Extracts from Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 24 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
crackers,
10Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Henry Knox, 9 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
...n.1), but omits the tents. Nineteen damask tablecloths and five breakfast tablecloths were sent, and the foodstuffs included 99 pounds of coffee and 24 pounds of hyson and souchong tea, 10 kegs of crackers, 22 pounds of pearl-barley, 25 pounds of “Superfine chocolate,” 2 barrels of sugar (loaf and muscovado), 10 gallons of vinegar, 8 pounds of ground pepper and 4 bottles of cayenne pepper...