1Abigail Adams to John Adams, 17 April 1797 (Adams Papers)
...three days. it has retarded our Buisness on the farm and chilld our exertions. the sudden changes have confind Your Mother and brought on one of her old Lung complaints the good old Lady is sure she shall dye now her Physician & Nurse is about to leave her, but She judges with me, that all ought to be forsaken for the Husband. it is an additional care and anxiety for me. I shall provide for...
2Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer to Abigail Adams, 24 April 1797 (Adams Papers)
— at this Moment the World Seems dyeing around you—and as the following lines aptly speak My sentiments upon the Melancholy Accation—I hope to be excused from transcribing them.—
3Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 4 May 1797 (Adams Papers)
...know I notic’d it but I lead her away as much as I can. Sister Smith has had a terrible [crazy] turn quite raving last Saturday & a monday She made mrs Brackit believe She was going to dye we were there the most of the day She made mrs Brackit lug & lift her about like a baby till I went over.
4Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 24 May 1797 (Adams Papers)
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5John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 June 1797 (Adams Papers)
crimes of every dye, that attends these Revolutions, the farce, of Liberty, of Equality, of Fraternity, of the Rights of Man, with its whole Babylonish Dialect
6From George Washington to James McHenry, 7 July 1797 (Washington Papers)
...among the former, to render him incapable of serving his Country and this forsooth because he may be a stumbling block in the way of a plan which he has in contemplation, is a crime of so deep a dye as no epithet can convey an adequate idea of to my mind. A poor wretch stealing the worth of a shilling, possibly to buy bread, would be hung, or confined to hard labour; and here, a plan...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Williams, 3 September 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
announce to you the unexpected Death of our excellent friend Dr. Nicholas Way, Treasurer of the Mint—He dyed last Saturday Evening of a most malignant fever—He was ill but seven days.” On September 15, 1797, Boudinot wrote to Pickering that Williams had applied for the position of Treasurer of the Mint (Jane J. Boudinot...
8Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 7 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
we have again been call’d to mourn the Death of a young Relative, Charles smith, tho in the Bloom of Health and Vigor 5 months ago. survived his sister only three Months. he dyed of a consumption at Haverhill where he lived beloved, and dyed lamented.
9Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 26 December 1797 (Adams Papers)
...Baby at my request, was sent to me to see, I felt for the poor little orphan an inexpressible tenderness. it is a fine Baby and the Image of its poor Broken Hearted Mother, who the Physicians agree, dyed with fatigue and dejection of spirits without any symptoms of the fever. I hope mr & Mrs Black will take the child as soon as it is weaned.
10Enclosure: Notes on Criminal Procecutions and Impeachment, [26 January 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
speaking, are mere synonimous terms: tho’ in common usage ‘crimes’ denote offences of a deeper & more atrocious dye, while smaller faults are comprised under the gentler name of ‘misdemeanors’ only.